OpenStack Swift Administrator Guide

• Introduction to Object Storage
• Features and benefits
• Object Storage characteristics
• Components
  • Proxy servers
  • Rings
  • Zones
  • Accounts and containers
  • Partitions
  • Replicators
  • Use cases
• Ring-builder
  • Ring data structure
  • Partition assignment list
  • Overload
  • Replica counts
  • Partition shift value
  • Build the ring
• Cluster architecture
  • Access tier
  • Storage nodes
• Replication
  • Database replication
  • Object replication
• Large object support
  • Large objects
• Object Auditor
• Erasure coding
• Account reaper
• Configure project-specific image locations with Object Storage
• Object Storage monitoring
  • Swift Recon
  • Swift-Informant
  • Statsdlog
  • Swift StatsD logging
• Troubleshoot Object Storage
  • Drive failure
  • Server failure
  • Detect failed drives
  • Emergency recovery of ring builder files