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