1.3. About S3 Clusters¶

Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform allows you to export cluster disk space to customers in the form of an S3-like object-based storage.

Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform is implemented as an Amazon S3-like API, which is one of the most common object storage APIs. End users can work with Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform as they work with Amazon S3. You can use the usual applications for S3 and continue working with it after the data migration from Amazon S3 to Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform.

The infrastructure of the object storage consists of the following entities: object servers (OS), name servers (NS), and the S3 gateways (GW).

These entities run as services on the Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform nodes. Each service should be deployed on multiple Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform nodes for high availability.

This section shows a sample object storage deployed on top of an Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform cluster of five nodes that run various services. The final setup is shown on the figure below.