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Adding storage capacity to an S3-enabled SVM

To add storage capacity to an S3-enabled SVM, you must create a bucket to provide a storage container.

  1. Creating a bucket
    S3 objects are kept in buckets—they are not nested as files inside a directory inside other directories.
  2. Creating an S3 user
    User authorization is required on all ONTAP object stores in order to restrict connectivity to authorized clients.
  3. Creating or modifying S3 groups
    You can simplify bucket access by creating groups of users with appropriate access authorizations.
  4. Creating or modifying access policy statements
    User and group access to S3 resources is controlled by bucket and object store server policies. If you have a small number of users or groups, controlling access at the bucket level is probably sufficient, but if you have many users and groups, it is easier to control access at the object store server level.
  5. Verifying client access to S3 object storage
    After configuring the S3 server and buckets, S3 administrators can make object stores available to client systems, either ONTAP systems with remote FabricPool capacity (cloud) tiers or S3 client apps, or to a local FabricPool capacity tier.