As you begin working with the StorageGRID Webscale system, it is helpful to understand how the StorageGRID Webscale system manages objects as they are ingested, copied, retrieved, and deleted.
Some key concepts to understand are:
What an object is
What information lifecycle management is
The life of an object
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What an object is
An object is an artificial construct used to describe an approach to storage that divides content into data and metadata.
What information lifecycle management is
Information lifecycle management is a set of rules that determine how an object’s data is protected from loss over time.
The life of an object
The life of an object begins at the moment of ingest and is affected by object operations.