Summary

In this chapter, you learned how Open vStorage is used to interface with OpenStack Swift object storage to provide storage for virtual machines. We described how the Sahara component of OpenStack interfaces uses Swift for the Hadoop clusters.

The next chapter talks about managing Swift and things to consider while replacing or expanding disks, nodes, and zones. It also provides information on various tools that can be used to gather information on object storage behavior.

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