Understanding new direct-to-object storage and its use 
in SOBR

Before VBR v12, the only use case for object storage was using it as a capacity or archive tier within a SOBR. The release of VBR v12 changed this and allows users to scale their storage requirements much more easily and not have to manage capacity as much as using block storage.

Direct to object is a new feature introduced with VBR v12. It allows users to move away from block storage and send their data directly to object storage, on-premises, or in the cloud, with one of the many vendors such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Wasabi, and so on. The feature allows you to use object storage in the performance tier of a SOBR, of which you can use multiple object storage extents, but the caveat is that they have to be from the same vendor. You cannot mix object and non-object storage, such as Microsoft Azure and AWS; both need to be from the same vendor to be a valid configuration.

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