Managing Object Locking via VMS

The following object locking features for buckets are available in VMS.

Caution
Once you enable object locking on a bucket, you cannot disable it or suspend versioning for that bucket.

Task	VAST Web UI Procedure
Enable object locking on a new bucket. Caution When you enable object locking on a bucket, object versioning is automatically enabled on the bucket as well.	When you create a new bucket via VMS directly, by creating a view and selecting S3 Bucket from the protocol options, you can enable locking with the Object Lock setting. This is only supported for views that are not exposed to other protocols. You can also set a default retention period with the S3 Retention Period setting. Without the default retention period, the object versions in the bucket are not automatically protected by a retention period or legal hold. With a default retention period, all object versions placed in the bucket are protected with that retention period.
Enable object locking on an existing bucket, set a default retention period, and set the retention mode.	When modifying a view via the VMS GUI, enable object locking on the S3 tab under S3 Features using the Object Lock setting, set the default retention period for objects in the S3 Retention Period field, and select a retention mode from the Retention Mode dropdown.
View object locking status.	See which views have object locking enabled in the S3 Locks column of the Views page in the VAST Web UI.

Task

VAST Web UI Procedure

Enable object locking on a new bucket.

Caution
When you enable object locking on a bucket, object versioning is automatically enabled on the bucket as well.

When you create a new bucket via VMS directly, by creating a view and selecting S3 Bucket from the protocol options, you can enable locking with the Object Lock setting. This is only supported for views that are not exposed to other protocols. You can also set a default retention period with the S3 Retention Period setting. Without the default retention period, the object versions in the bucket are not automatically protected by a retention period or legal hold. With a default retention period, all object versions placed in the bucket are protected with that retention period.

Enable object locking on an existing bucket, set a default retention period, and set the retention mode.

When modifying a view via the VMS GUI, enable object locking on the S3 tab under S3 Features using the Object Lock setting, set the default retention period for objects in the S3 Retention Period field, and select a retention mode from the Retention Mode dropdown.

View object locking status.

See which views have object locking enabled in the S3 Locks column of the Views page in the VAST Web UI.