Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to detect an operation associated with a first object instance in a first cluster, determine that the first object instance is configured for replication to a second cluster, create an object information (info) metadata entry for the first object instance, create an object replication metadata entry for the first object instance, and simultaneously write the object info metadata entry and the object replication metadata entry to a first data structure and a second data structure, respectively.

Abstract: An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein relates to a hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) having an object storage system (OSS) with an apparatus having a processor with programmed instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include specifying a first object in the OSS as an executable, specifying a second object in the OSS as an environment on which to run the first object, specifying a third object in the OSS as data to be processed by the first object, and constructing and storing a composite object in the OSS that associates the first, second, and third objects. The composite object provides a technical improvement, providing more direct access to compute resources.

Abstract: An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a user device, a request to identify a service for which a first load capability correlates with a second load capability of the endpoint. The processor has programmed instructions to, for each of a plurality of services of the endpoint, send one or more I/O requests, determine a metric associated with the one or more I/O requests, and determine a load capability based on the metric. The processor has programmed instructions to identify a first service having a load capability that satisfies a threshold and send, to the user device, an indication of the first service.

Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to detect an operation associated with a first object instance in a first cluster, determine that the first object instance is configured for replication to a second cluster, create an object information (info) metadata entry for the first object instance, create an object replication metadata entry for the first object instance, and simultaneously write the object info metadata entry and the object replication metadata entry to a first data structure and a second data structure, respectively.

Abstract: An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a user device, a request to identify a service for which a first load capability correlates with a second load capability of the endpoint. The processor has programmed instructions to, for each of a plurality of services of the endpoint, send one or more I/O requests, determine a metric associated with the one or more I/O requests, and determine a load capability based on the metric. The processor has programmed instructions to identify a first service having a load capability that satisfies a threshold and send, to the user device, an indication of the first service.

Abstract: An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to specify a first object as an executable, specify a second object as an environment on which to run the first object, specify a third object as data to be processed by the first object, and construct a composite object that associates the first, second, and third objects.