IBM Cloud Object Storage System Product Guide

Deployment options

In this chapter, we describe the different deployment options for IBM Cloud Object Storage. This chapter includes the following topics:

•4.1, “Introduction” on page 76

•4.2, “IBM hardware appliances” on page 76

•4.3, “Third-party appliances” on page 77

•4.4, “Embedded Accesser” on page 77

•4.5, “IBM Cloud Object Storage system virtual appliances” on page 78

•4.6, “Appliance Docker Containers” on page 79

4.1 Introduction

The IBM COS appliances can be deployed on physical hardware as a Docker container, or as a VMware appliance. ...