What is the role of a StorageGRID Gateway Node?

• A. Provide S3/Swift load-balancing endpoints and distribute traffic to storage nodes
• B. Store metadata for the SVM
• C. Manage user authentication
• D. Backup to tape library

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that the Gateway Node acts as the API entry point for object storage in StorageGRID. It exposes the S3 and Swift endpoints to clients and serves as a load balancer that distributes incoming requests across the storage nodes in the grid. This routing and load balancing across multiple storage nodes is exactly what the gateway is designed to do, enabling scalable, multi-protocol access to stored objects. Other listed functions—storing metadata for a virtual machine, managing user authentication, or backing up to a tape library—aren’t the gateway’s role in StorageGRID.