Administering storage policies for object storage

Use the following information to create, list, and change storage policies for object storage.

Before creating a storage policy with the file-access (unified file and object access) function enabled, the file-access object capability must be enabled. For more information, see Object capabilities in IBM Spectrum Scale: Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide, and Managing object capabilities in IBM Spectrum Scale: Administration and Programming Reference.

To create a new storage policy with the unified file and object access feature enabled, use the following command:

mmobj policy create sof-policy --enable-file-access

The system displays output similar to this:

[I] Getting latest configuration from ccr
[I] Creating fileset /dev/gpfs0:obj_sof-policy
[I] Creating new unique index and build the object rings
[I] Updating the configuration
[I] Uploading the changed configuration

To list storage policies for object storage with details of functions available with those storage policies, use the following command:

mmobj policy list --verbose

The system displays output similar to this:

Index       Name          Deprecated  Fileset           Fileset Path                        Functions                Function Details
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0           SwiftDefault              object_fileset    /ibm/cesSharedRoot/object_fileset
11751509160 sof-policy                obj_sof-policy    /ibm/cesSharedRoot/obj_sof-policy   file-and-object-access   regions="1"
11751509230 mysofpolicy               obj_mysofpolicy   /ibm/cesSharedRoot/obj_mysofpolicy  file-and-object-access   regions="1"

To change a storage policy for object storage, use the following command:
```
mmobj policy change
```

For more information about the mmobj policy command, see mmobj command.