Test Results: ViPR Object Capabilities

Recently, Principled Technologies (PT), a leader in fact-based technology assessments, conducted a hands-on evaluation of ViPR involving a series of use-case scenarios, including storage automation and provisioning, monitoring and reporting, VMware integration, and object services.  The results of this testing have been published by PT in the report “Realizing Software-Defined Storage with EMC ViPR” (Principled Technologies, April 2014). To acquaint you with the report and the hard facts within, we’ll publish a series of excerpts over the next few weeks.

Object Capabilities

In this excerpt, we’ll look at the test results for ViPR object capabilities:

“As organizations look for ways to rapidly develop Web-based applications, cloud-based object storage is an attractive resource, because it is inexpensive, distributed, and accessible using normal Internet protocols. As developers build applications that utilize cloud-based storage, they may find difficulties in “porting” those applications to secured environments that use traditional storage models.

EMC ViPR provides organizations with an easy method of bringing their data and applications in house. ViPR can be used to create object data stores, protected with key-based authentication compatible with the storage models used by major cloud storage providers.”

Figure 22: EMC ViPR can create S3 and Swift compatible object stores for use with apps configured to use cloud storage.

Source: “Realizing Software-Defined Storage with EMC ViPR” (Principled Technologies, April 2014).

For more detailed information about the hands-on testing of ViPR monitoring and reporting, please see the section about Object Capabilities (pages 23-25) and Appendix K – Configuring Object Store (pages 55-56) in the report “Realizing Software-Defined Storage with EMC ViPR” (Principled Technologies, April 2014).