IBM Cloud Object Storage System Product Guide

1. IBM Cloud Object Storage System overview

This section provides an introduction to the IBM Cloud Object Storage (IBM COS) system.

The IBM COS system is a breakthrough cloud platform that helps solve petabyte and beyond storage challenges for enterprises worldwide. It uses an innovative and cost-effective approach for storing large volumes of unstructured data while still ensuring scalability, security, availability, reliability, manageability, and flexibility.

Consider the following points:

• Scalability offers a single storage system and namespace versus an ever-increasing number of limited-capacity storage silos.
• Security features include a wide range of capabilities that help meet security
  requirements.
• Availability and reliability characteristics of the system are configurable to best suit
  different use cases and requirements.
• Manageability helps enable storage administrators to handle large storage capacity.
• Flexibility of a software-defined storage solution does not require specific or proprietary
  hardware.

This chapter provides an overview of IBM Cloud Object Storage System. It includes the
following topics:

1. How IBM Cloud Object Storage System works
2. Software-defined storage
3. Typical workloads and use cases

2. Planning and sizing an IBM Cloud Object Storage System

This chapter provides information about designing an IBM Cloud Object Storage System (IBM
COS) to suit customer requirements and includes the following topics:

1. Planning for capacity
2. Performance planning
3. Planning for high reliability and availability
4. Network planning

3. IBM Cloud Object Storage Gen2 hardware appliances

This chapter provides an overview of the IBM Cloud Object Storage second-generation (Gen2) hardware appliances and includes the following topics:

1. Gen2 hardware appliance overview
2. Appliance specifications
3. Hardware options
4. Performance
5. Rack guidance

4. Deployment options

In this chapter, we describe the different deployment options for IBM Cloud Object Storage. This chapter includes the following topics:

1. Introduction
2. IBM hardware appliances
3. Third-party appliances
4. Embedded Accesser
5. IBM Cloud Object Storage system virtual appliances
6. Appliance Docker Containers

5. Initial setup and configuration

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