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	QuantaStor’s scale-out block storage configurations provide highly-available iSCSI block storage suitable for a variety of use cases. Each system contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x systems. QuantaStor’s web-based management interface, REST APIs and QS CLI make storage provisioning and automation easy.		QuantaStor’s scale-out block storage configurations provide highly-available iSCSI block storage suitable for a variety of use cases. Each system contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x systems. QuantaStor’s web-based management interface, REST APIs and QS CLI make storage provisioning and automation easy.

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QuantaStor’s scale-out block storage configurations provide highly-available iSCSI block storage suitable for a variety of use cases. Each system contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x systems. QuantaStor’s web-based management interface, REST APIs and QS CLI make storage provisioning and automation easy.

== Key Features ==
*S3 & SWIFT Compatible REST API support
*Hybrid HDD + SSD configuration to boost write performance
*Easy web-based management of all systems with built-in QuantaStor storage grid technology
*Easy expansion by adding systems and/or drives

== Reference Configurations ==

'''Scale-out iSCSI Block Storage Configuration Options'''

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
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| style="width: 15%"|<center>'''Capacity (Raw / Usable)'''</center>
| style="width: 15%"|<center>'''Media Type'''</center>
| style="width: 15%"|<center>'''Protocol Support'''</center>
| style="width: 15%"|<center>'''Workload'''</center>
| style="width: 20%"|<center>'''System View'''</center>
| style="width: 20%"|<center>'''Design'''</center>
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|<center>16TB / 8TB (RAID10 / mirrored)</center>
|<center>HDD + SSD</center>
|<center>iSCSI / FC NFS / CIFS /SMB</center>
|<center>Highly-available Block Storage VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer with Cinder integration for KVM-based OpenStack deployment</center>
|[[File:Svr_supermicro_2u12_6029p.png | center]]
|<center>{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2PfXuVt|SAN/NAS Hybrid (SM) - VM/VDI}}</center>
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|2x E5-2650v4 or 4110, 64GB RAM, 8x 2TB SATA, QS Small Tier License, 1x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot), 2x 10GbE Private Network ports
|Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases
|[[File:Svr_supermicro_2u12_6029p.png | center]]
<center>
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2PfXuVt|View Design}}
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2KXF6CC|Provisioning Guide}}
{{QsButton|https://ibm.co/2DE53AG|Deploy}}
</center>
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|}
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
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| style="width: 40%"|'''Medium Tier - Hybrid Block Storage – 48TB'''
| style="width: 30%"|'''Use Cases'''
| style="width: 30%"|'''System View'''
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|2x E5-2620v4 or 4110, 128GB RAM, 8x 6TB, QS Medium Tier License, 1x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot), 2x 10GbE Private Network ports
|Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases
|[[File:Svr_supermicro_2u12_6029p.png | center]]
<center>
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2PfXuVt|View Design}}
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2KXF6CC|Provisioning Guide}}
{{QsButton|https://ibm.co/2DE53AG|Deploy}}
</center>
|-
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
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| style="width: 40%"|'''Large Tier - Hybrid Block Storage – 128TB'''
| style="width: 30%"|'''Use Cases'''
| style="width: 30%"|'''System View'''
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|2x E5-2620v4 or 4110, 128GB RAM, 16x 8TB SATA, QS Large Tier License, 2x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot), 2x 10GbE Private Network ports
|Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases
|[[File:Svr_supermicro_2u12_6029p.png | center]]
<center>
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2PfXuVt|View Design}}
{{QsButton|https://bit.ly/2KXF6CC|Provisioning Guide}}
{{QsButton|https://ibm.co/2DE53AG|Deploy}}
</center>
|-
|}
== Quick Configurations Steps ==



'''Step One:''' Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK 
'''Step Two:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd System IP → Click OK 
'''Step Three:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd System IP → Click OK 
'''Step Four:''' Storage Management Tab → Modify Storage System → Set Domain Suffix → Click OK (do this for each system) 
'''Step Five:''' Storage Management Tab → Controllers & Enclosures → right-click Controller → Configure Pass-thru devices → Select all → Click OK (do this for each system) 
'''Step Six:''' Scale-out Block & Object Storage Tab → Ceph Cluster → Create Ceph Cluster → Select all systems → Click OK 
'''Step Seven:''' Scale-out Block & Object Storage Tab → Ceph Cluster → Multi-Create OSDs → Select SSDs as journals, HDDs as OSDs → Click OK 
'''Step Eight:''' Scale-out Block & Object Storage Tab → Storage Pools (Ceph) → Create Storage Pool → Select Erasure Coding Mode → Click OK 
'''Step Nine:''' Cluster Resource Management → Create Site Cluster → Select All → Click OK 
'''Step Ten:''' Cluster Resource Management → Add Site Interface → Enter IP address for iSCSI Access → Click OK 
'''Step Eleven:''' Storage Management Tab → Hosts → Add Host → Enter host IQN → Click OK (do this for each host) 
'''Step Twelve:''' Storage Management Tab → Storage Volumes → Create Storage Volume → Enter volume name, select a size, → Click OK 
'''Step Thirteen:''' Storage Management Tab → Hosts → Right-click Host → Assign Volumes → Select volumes → Click OK

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