An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to maintain an object store including a primary cluster having one or more compute resources and one or more first storage resources, identify a secondary cluster having one or more second storage resources, select the secondary cluster to be added to the object store, allocate an available portion of the one or more second storage resources to the object store, and shard an object across the one or more second storage resources and the available portion of the one or more second storage resources.