Wasabi With Dell ObjectScale Getting Started

Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale is a cloud-based deployment of Dell ObjectScale that is hosted by Wasabi. This article provides the essential S3 API configurations needed to create your first bucket. For more advanced API documentation, refer to the Dell API Guide. 

Prerequisites 

• Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale account  
• Account access credentials (Access Key and Secret Key) 

Data Access Management 

Each Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale account comes with a Root IAM user, who has full ownership of all S3 resources within the namespace. By default, Wasabi provides the Root user's Access Key and Secret Key in the "Welcome" email upon account provisioning. 

S3 Service URLs

United States ObjectScale Pricing Region

United Kingdom ObjectScale Pricing Region

Creating a Bucket With Postman 

These steps install Postman and set up your first bucket. 

1. Download and install Postman on your PC from https://www.postman.com/downloads/   
2. Open Postman and create your first Postman collection (to group your requests).  
3. Add a new request and assign a name (for example, Create Bucket).
4. Configure:

   Method: PUT
   URL: https://s3.us-east-1-dell-obs.wasabisys.com:9021/{{bucketname}}
   Bucket Name: Enter the desired bucket name replacing {{bucketname}} in the URL path.
   Be sure to click Save.

   

5. On the Authorization tab, configure:

   Auth Type: AWS Signature
   Add auth data to: Request Headers
   AccessKey and SecretKey: Use the IAM access credentials from the "Welcome" email.
   Be sure to click Save.

   

6. Click Send to submit the request to create your bucket. You will receive a 200-response, indicating the bucket was created successfully.

   

7. To validate, create a new request to get the bucket details:

   Method: GET
   URL: https://s3.us-east-1-dell-obs.wasabisys.com:9021/{{bucketname}}
   Be sure to click Save.

8. Click Send to submit the request to get your bucket. You will receive a 200-response along with the details of the bucket.

   

Additional Information

Data Access Management Tools 

• AWS CLI (recommended version 2.22.35) 
• Cyberduck (must use S3 deprecated path style requests) 

Resources 

Guides and articles for use with Dell products are:

• Dell Products With Wasabi
• Dell API Guide 
• Detailed ObjectScale Postman Collection