Out-of-Band Updates

Zenko depends on object storage metadata for its operation. When a new Zenko location is configured, Zenko encounters a new object storage system. If Zenko does not understand the location’s namespace, Zenko creates a new Zenko namespace and uses it to perform all of its data management tasks (metadata search, replication, lifecycle transition and expiration). If Zenko recognizes the existing namespace, it can ingest the existing namespace metadata, in a process called an out-of-band update.

Out-of-band updates are available for Scality’s RING object storage system via S3 Connector. Zenko communicates directly with the S3 Connector namespace and replicates it natively. Zenko can also interoperate with RINGs using the Scale-Out File System (SOFS) via the NFS protocol and with buckets hosted by Amazon Web Services. For NFS and AWS data stores, Zenko downloads and extrapolates metadata from the stores to create its own namespace, updates the namespace in scheduled cron jobs, then acts on changes registered in this virtual namespace.

When establishing a Zenko location for out-of-band updates, versioning must be enabled. Out-of-band updates for S3C provide metrics; for NFS and AWS services, metrics remain under development. This feature is not yet implemented for Azure Blob frontends.

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This feature is not yet implemented for Azure Blob frontends.