Object capabilities

Object capabilities describe the object protocol features that are configured in the IBM Storage Scale cluster.

The following capabilities are supported:

• The file-access capability (Unified file and object access)
• The multi-region capability (Multi-region object deployment)
• The S3 capability (Amazon S3 API)

If unified file and object access is configured, you can change the file-access capability to enable or disable the related services. Use the mmobj file-access command to change unified file and object access.

Use the mmobj multiregion command to change multi-region capabilities. Use the mmobj s3 command to change S3 capabilities.

You can create a storage policy with unified file and object access only when file-access (unified file and object access) capability is enabled.

The ibmobjectizer and openstack-swift-object-sof services are started only if the file-access capability is enabled. Disabling the file-access capability stops these services.

For information about enabling, disabling, and listing object capabilities, see Managing object capabilities.