USING HYPERSTORE WITH OBJECT LOCK 3
HYPERSTORE INTRODUCTION
Cloudian HyperStore® is a scale-out object storage system designed to manage massive amounts of
unstructured data. It is a Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform which runs on any standard x64 server
platform. This dramatically reduces the cost for datacenter storage while still providing limitless scalability,
extreme availability and unprecedented reliability. Cloudian HyperStore, with native S3 compatibility,
enables data centers to provide highly cost-effective on-premise unstructured data storage repositories.
Cloudian HyperStore is built on standard hardware that can span across the enterprise as well as out into
public cloud environments.
Cloudian HyperStore is available as a stand-alone software or fully integrated with hardware as a Cloudian
HyperStore appliance. It easily scales to limitless capacities and offers multi-datacenter storage.
HyperStore also has fully automated data tiering to all major public clouds, including AWS, Azure and
Google Cloud Platform. It fully supports S3 applications and has flexible security options. HyperStore
deployment models include on-premises storage, distributed storage, storage-as-a-service or even other
combinations as illustrated below.
OBJECT LOCK FEATURE OVERVIEW
With the 7.2 release, HyperStore can now implement WORM (Write Once Read Many) protection for stored
objects by supporting the standard AWS S3 Object Lock functionality. To use the Object Lock within
HyperStore, you must have a separate Object Lock license. It is also required to enable the HyperStore
Shell (HSH) and disable the root account password on all of the HyperStore nodes. For more information
see the Prerequisites section in 4.3.7.2 within the online user guide.
For an excellent overview of the Object Lock feature itself, please see the following introduction published
by Amazon Web Services (AWS):
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lock-overview.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lock.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lock-managing.html
Once Object Lock is enabled in HyperStore, then the HyperStore S3 Service supports all the standard
AWS S3 API methods and headers associated with the S3 Object Lock feature. Using these standard S3
API methods and headers, third party S3 client applications can:
• Enable Object Lock on new buckets as those buckets are created. Note that Object Lock can only
be enabled on newly created buckets, as part of the operation that creates the bucket just as AWS
supports. Note that Object Lock cannot be enabled on buckets that already exist.
• Enabling Object Lock as a bucket is created automatically enables Versioning on the bucket.
Object Lock can only be used in combination with Versioning enabled.
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