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The QuantaStor Administrators Guide is intended for all administrators and cloud users who plan to manage their storage using QuantaStor Manager as well as for those just looking to get a deeper understanding of how the QuantaStor Storage System Platform (SSP) works.
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The QuantaStor Administrator Guide is intended for all IT administrators working to setup or maintain a QuantaStor system or grid of systems as well as for those just looking to get a deeper understanding of how the QuantaStor software defined storage platform works.


== Definitions ==
== Administrator Guide Topic Links ==


The following series of definitions are here to lay the ground work and context for the rest of the document.  Here we define all the various objects and elements that can be managed using QuantaStor.
[[Web UI Definition]]


=== Storage System ===
[[Navigation for Dialog Access]]


The storage system is the object that represents the entire iSCSI server both from a physical and logical standpoint.  This includes all the physical disks, fans, enclosures, power supplies and other physical elements of the system as well as all the logical elements including the storage pools, volumes, users, and storage clouds.
[[Navigation using Right Click for Dialog Access]]


=== Storage Pool ===
[[Storage System]]
The storage pool is an aggregation of one or more physical disks into a larger entity.  Each storage pool has a single RAID type associated with it, and all storage volumes that are created within that storage pool inherit RAID type.  For example, if a given storage pool of type RAID1 (mirroring) is made up to two 1TB disks, then there is 1TB of usable storage available to create storage volumes (LUNs) with.


=== Storage Volume ===
[[Grid Configuration]]
The storage volume is the most important object in the system as it represents the virtual disk device that is presented to the host a LUN.  Each storage volume has a unique name and a unique target number and a unique IQN associated with it.  Storage volumes can be created "thin" which means they do not use up any disk space until the device has been written to.  Or "thick" which means that all the space for the storage volume is pre-reserved up front.


=== Storage Volume Group ===
[[License Management]]
Often times hosts and virtual machines will be comprised of more than one storage volume.  Sometimes one storage volume is dedicated as a boot disk and another as a swap disk.  In other cases there are multiple disks utilized to separate out the elements of a database application (index, data, log) into separate storage volumes for improved performance.  Whatever the reason, it can become difficult to manage you storage system without a way to group these storage volumes together so that they can be operated on as a single unit.  That's what Storage Volume Groups provide.  They're simple containers for collecting together an arbitrary set of storage volumes so that they can be cloned, snapshot, or even deleted as a group.


=== Snapshot Schedules ===
=== Hardware Configuration ===
=== Host ===
=== Host Group ===
=== Storage Cloud ===
=== Storage Quota ===
=== Roles ===
=== Permissions ===
=== Users ===
=== User Groups ===
=== Target Port ===
=== Sessions ===
=== CHAP Authentication ===
=== Alerts ===
=== Events ===
=== Tasks ===


== Target Port Configuration ==
[[Network Port Configuration]]


=== NIC Bonding / Trunking ===
[[Physical Disk/Device Management]]


== Alert Settings ==
[[Hardware Controller & Enclosure Management]]


== Managing Hosts ==
[[Multipath Configuration]]


== Managing Snapshot Schedules ==
[[Western Digital (WD) Data24 Configuration]]
=== Near Continuous Data Replication (N-CDP) ===


== Managing Sessions ==
[[Seagate Corvault Configuration]]
=== Dropping Sessions ===


== Managing Storage Volumes ==
=== Storage Provisioning ===
=== Creating & Deleting Storage Volumes ===
 
=== Creating Snapshots ===
[[Storage Pool Management]]
=== Creating Clones ===
 
=== Restoring from Snapshots ===
[[Storage Volume Management]]
=== Converting a Snapshot into a Primary ===
 
[[Network Share Management]]
 
[[Cloud Containers/NAS Gateway]]
 
=== Security, Alerting & Upgrades ===
 
[[Call-home/Alert Management]]
 
[[Security Configuration]]
 
[[Upgrade Manager]]
 
=== Snapshots & Replication ===
 
[[Snapshot Schedules]]
 
[[Backup Policies]]
 
[[Remote-replication (DR)]]
 
[[Bucket Synchronization Policies]]
 
=== Cluster Configuration ===
 
[[HA Cluster Setup (JBODs)]]
 
[[HA Cluster Setup (external SAN)]]
 
[[Scale-out_Block_Setup_(ceph)|Scale-out Block Setup (ceph)]]
 
[[Scale-out Object Setup (ceph)|Scale-out Object Setup (ceph)]]
 
[[Scale-out File Setup (ceph)|Scale-out File Setup (ceph)]]
 
[[Ceph Encryption Bypass]]
 
=== Optimization ===
 
[[Performance Tuning]]
 
[[Performance Monitoring]]
 
=== System Internals ===
 
[[QuantaStor systemd Services]]
 
[[QuantaStor Configuration Files]]
 
[[QuantaStor Shell Utilities]]

Latest revision as of 22:47, 18 June 2026

The QuantaStor Administrator Guide is intended for all IT administrators working to setup or maintain a QuantaStor system or grid of systems as well as for those just looking to get a deeper understanding of how the QuantaStor software defined storage platform works.

Administrator Guide Topic Links

Web UI Definition

Navigation for Dialog Access

Navigation using Right Click for Dialog Access

Storage System

Grid Configuration

License Management

Hardware Configuration

Network Port Configuration

Physical Disk/Device Management

Hardware Controller & Enclosure Management

Multipath Configuration

Western Digital (WD) Data24 Configuration

Seagate Corvault Configuration

Storage Provisioning

Storage Pool Management

Storage Volume Management

Network Share Management

Cloud Containers/NAS Gateway

Security, Alerting & Upgrades

Call-home/Alert Management

Security Configuration

Upgrade Manager

Snapshots & Replication

Snapshot Schedules

Backup Policies

Remote-replication (DR)

Bucket Synchronization Policies

Cluster Configuration

HA Cluster Setup (JBODs)

HA Cluster Setup (external SAN)

Scale-out Block Setup (ceph)

Scale-out Object Setup (ceph)

Scale-out File Setup (ceph)

Ceph Encryption Bypass

Optimization

Performance Tuning

Performance Monitoring

System Internals

QuantaStor systemd Services

QuantaStor Configuration Files

QuantaStor Shell Utilities

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