In last post of this series, we learnt how to enable VCD tenants to consume Object Storage. In this post we will learn various operations that can be performed on bucket and objects stored within a bucket.

If you have landed directly on this post by mistake, I would recommend reading previous articles from this series:

1: Introduction & Architecture of VCD OSE

2: Infrastructure Preparation

3: Installing Cloudian Hyperstore

4: Configuring Cloudian for VCD Integration

5: VCD OSE Installation & Cloudian Integration

6: Service Provider Configuration

1: Bucket Creation

Login to VCD as tenant and navigate to Object Storage plugin from context menu.

Go to buckets tab and click on get started button.

Provide a name for the bucket and hit save. 

2: Viewing Bucket Properties

Click on newly created bucket and select the Properties tab to view attributes associated with a bucket. 

You can share the S3 url associated with bucket with other users, so that they can consume this bucket for storing data/objects.… Read More

In last post of this series, I explained end to end installation & configuration workflow of VCD OSE. In this post I will walk through steps of finalizing OSE configuration from CSP point of view.

If you have landed directly on this post by mistake, I would recommend reading previous articles from this series:

1: Introduction & Architecture of VCD OSE

2: Infrastructure Preparation

3: Installing Cloudian Hyperstore

4: Configuring Cloudian for VCD Integration

5: VCD OSE Installation & Cloudian Integration

Login to VCD with system admin credentials  and navigate to Home > Customize Portal. Select VCD Object Storage Extension and click on Publish button.

Select the scope of publishing OSE plugin and also select the Tenants to whom you want to expose this plugin.

From Main menu, go to Object Storage sub menu and select Tenants tab.

To enable Tenants to consume Object Storage, first we have to enable them to do so. … Read More