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What is QuantaStor SDS?

Subject:

QuantaStor Software Defined Storage

Detail:

The QuantaStor storage appliance OS is a combined SAN (iSCSI) + NAS (NFS v3 &v4) storage system OS built on top of Ubuntu Server (Linux) which works on any commodity 64bit server hardware.

QuantaStor provides a number of advanced storage system features including snapshots, compression, thin-provisioning and remote-replication which together make it ideally suited for a broad set of applications including virtual servers, virtual desktops, video production, web servers, application servers, and disk based backup. 

The QuantaStor Software Defined Storage appliance platform delivers enterprise SAN (iSCSI) + NAS (NFS/CIFS) storage on the server hardware of your choice. Designed for IT generalists, QuantaStor appliances configure in minutes and are easy to operate via an intuitive HTML5 interface.

Features include:

* NAS (NFS & CIFS) file storage with Active Directory integration
SAN (iSCSI) block storage with active/active multipathing for redundancy and improved performance


* Snapshots, compression, and thin-provisioning supported for network shares and storage volumes


* SSD caching for reads and writes boosts IOPS for IO intensive workloads like virtualization


* Built-in QuantaGrid technology that enables scale-out management of your appliances across datacenters from the QuantaStor Manager web interface.


* Scale-out NAS with integrated GlusterFS technology allows you to span appliances to deliver highly-available multi-petabyte NAS storage in a single namespace


* Remote-replication for replicating mission critical workloads and easy Disaster-Recovery (DR) failover to another appliance at another site/datacenter.


* Integrated hardware RAID management for efficient set-up and maintenance of underlying storage pools


* Automatic snapshot schedules that make it easy to recover deleted files from your CIFS/NFS network shares


* Multi-tenancy with Role Based Access Controls


* Integrated backup policy engine makes it easy to set up automatic backups for any CIFS/NFS share on your private network. Parallelism in the scanning and backup engine makes it possible to do backups of NAS filers with 100s of millions of files.


* NAS gateway to Cloud Storage provides a means for backing up data into object storage. All the data is encrypted, compressed and reduplicated to minimize footprint and object storage costs.

 

QuantaStor SDS is ideally suited for a broad set of applications including virtual servers, virtual desktops, video production, web servers, application servers, and petabyte scale disk archive/backup.

More information is available on http://www.osnexus.com/

You can read more about managing and maintaining your QuantaStor server at our wiki:

http://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=QuantaStor_Users_Guide


http://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=QuantaStor_CLI_Users_Guide


http://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=QuantaStor_Administrators_Guide

 

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