Synchronous object placement for information lifecycle management

A computing device comprising:

• a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of ingesting an object to a distributed storage system;
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• receive a request from a client application to save the object to the distributed storage system at a first storage site of the distributed storage system;
• capture, synchronously with ingesting the object, metadata associated with the object;
• determine, synchronously with ingesting the object, a second storage site of the distributed storage system for a copy of the object based on evaluating an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy rule and the metadata associated with the object, the second storage site being different from the first storage site;
• and
• determine, synchronously with ingesting the object, that the copy cannot be made to the determined second storage site.

A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to:

• receive a request from a client application to save an object to first storage site of a distributed storage system;
• capture, synchronously with ingesting the object, metadata associated with the object;
• determine, synchronously with ingesting the object, a second storage site of the distributed storage system for a copy of the object based on evaluating an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy rule and the metadata associated with the object, the second storage site being different from the first storage site;
• and
• store, synchronously with ingesting the object, the copy of the object at the storage location based on the evaluated ILM policy rule.