You onboard VMware Cloud Director organization users to a storage platform, for example ECS or Cloudian, by activating VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension for a VMware Cloud Director organization for the first time.
When you activate VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension for a VMware Cloud Director organization for the first time, an equivalent group is created in the underlying storage platform. The group in the storage platform is the equivalent of a VMware Cloud Director organization. Initially, the group does not contain any users. When an organization user of VMware Cloud Director creates a bucket and uploads an object to VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension for the first time, a storage user is created in the corresponding group in the storage platform.
When you deactivate VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension for a VMware Cloud Director organization, the organization users cannot access VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension, but the buckets and objects that the users created are retained.
If you deactivate and delete an organization user from VMware Cloud Director, the storage user remains active and the object storage data is retained in the storage platform. When you delete an organization user from VMware Cloud Director, you can transfer only the VMware Cloud Director resources to another organization user. To clean up the object storage data of a deleted organization user, use the storage management console.
To restore the access to the resources for the organization users, activate VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.
See Activating and Deactivating VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension for a Tenant Organization.
