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Swarm provides a hierarchy of container objects: cluster, domain, and bucket (shown in white, below) to facilitate organizing storage of data objects.

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Configure a cluster in to a storage cloud (such as cloud.com, below) that allows users in one storage domain (my.cloud.com) securely access content separately from other users:

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A cluster administrator creates the domain either using the Swarm Admin Console or programmatically, with an SCSP command. Buckets and data objects must be created in a domain (tenanted), so plan to create domains first.

Best practices

 These actions make URLs and cURL commands as simple as possible:

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Important

Never write named objects without specifying a bucket (with a path like http://cluster.example.com/testfile.txt): doing so performing this creates the object as a bucket. Buckets are treated differently, and they are not meant to contain a content body.

The cluster synchronously creates two replicas of the bucket object and then asynchronously creates any additional replicas as determined by a lifepoint header or the scsp.defaultContextReplicas and scsp.maxContextReplicas configuration parameters when creating a new bucket.

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