SG1000 applications

You can configure the StorageGRID SG1000 services appliance in various ways to provide gateway services as well as redundancy of some grid administration services.

The SG1000 can be added to a new or existing grid as a Gateway Node. It can be added to a new grid as a primary or non-primary Admin Node, or to an existing grid as a non-primary Admin Node.

The SG1000 facilitates the use of high availability (HA) groups and intelligent load balancing for S3 or Swift data path connections.

The following examples describe how you can maximize the capabilities of the SG1000:

Use two SG1000 appliances to provide gateway services by configuring them as Gateway Nodes.
Use two SG1000 appliances to provide redundancy of some grid administration services. Do this by configuring each of them as Admin Nodes.
Use two SG1000 appliances to provide highly available load balancing and traffic shaping services accessed through one or more virtual IP addresses. Do this by configuring the appliances as any combination of Admin Nodes or Gateway Nodes and adding both nodes to the same HA gateway group.
Attention: If you use Admin Nodes and Gateway Nodes in the same HA group, CLB ports and Admin Node-only ports will not fail over.

The SG1000 enables deployment of appliance-only grids with no dependencies on external hypervisors or compute hardware.