Application wide name space for enterprise object store file system

A method comprising:

• providing one or more appliances, each logically defining a physical storage cluster, the physical storage cluster including at least one storage device;
• providing a tenant logically spanning across said one or more appliances;
• arranging one or more physical file systems within each of said one or more appliances;
• defining one or more corresponding physical file systems available to said tenant within a corresponding appliance in accordance with one or more bucket sets defining, the one or more bucket sets being assigned to the corresponding appliance based on at least one of a plurality of preset parameters;
• and
• accessing objects of an application stored in said physical file systems across said one or more appliances in association with said tenant via an application wide object name space, wherein the application wide object name space is defined by workload, and wherein the workload is partitioned based on at least one of the appliances, the tenant, and the physical file systems.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

• providing one or more appliances, each logically defining a physical storage cluster, the physical storage cluster including at least one storage device;
• providing a tenant logically spanning across said one or more appliances;
• arranging one or more physical file systems within each of said one or more appliances;
• defining one or more corresponding physical file systems available to said tenant within a corresponding appliance in accordance with one or more bucket sets defining, the one or more bucket sets being assigned to the corresponding appliance based on at least one of a plurality of preset parameters;
• and
• accessing objects of an application stored in said physical file systems across said one or more appliances in association with said tenant via an application wide object name space, wherein the application wide object name space is defined by workload, and wherein the workload is partitioned based on at least one of the appliances, the tenant, and the physical file systems.