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Decide where to provision new S3 storage capacity

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Before you create a new S3 bucket, you must decide whether to place it in a new or existing SVM. This decision determines your workflow.

Choices

  • If you want to provision a bucket in a new SVM or an SVM that is not enabled for S3, complete the steps in the following topics.

    Create an SVM for S3

    Create a bucket for S3

    Although S3 can coexist in an SVM with NFS and SMB, you might choose to create a new SVM if one of the following is true:

    • You are enabling S3 on a cluster for the first time.

    • You have existing SVMs in a cluster in which you do not want to enable S3 support.

    • You have one or more S3-enabled-SVMs in a cluster, and you want another S3 server with different performance characteristics. After enabling S3 on the SVM, proceed to provision a bucket.

  • If you want to provision the initial bucket or an additional bucket on an existing S3-enabled SVM, complete the steps in the following topic.

    Create a bucket for S3