Configure Scale-out Storage Cluster

KEY FEATURES

QuantaStor’s scale-out object configurations provide S3 and SWIFT compatible REST API support. Configurations scale-out by adding additional drives and appliances. Each appliance contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x appliances and a maximum of 32s appliances (10PB maximum). QuantaStor’s storage grid technology enables appliances to be grouped together and managed as a storage grid which can spans IBM datacenters. Within a storage grid one or more object storage clusters may be provisioned and managed from QuantaStor’s web based management interface as well as via QS REST APIs and the QS CLI.

QuantaStor SAN/NAS Storage Appliance Features

• Provides NFS, SMB and iSCSI storage
• Compression, AES 256 bit Encryption
• Remote-replication between QuantaStor appliances across IBM data centers and on-premises locations for hybrid cloud.
• Snapshot Schedules with long term snapshot retention options.
• Hybrid SSD+HDD configuration provide economical capacity with performance
• All-Flash configurations deliver maximum IOPS
• Easy web-based management with Storage Grid technology
• NIST 800-53, HIPAA, CJIS compliant
• FIPS 140-2 Level 1 compliant options available Q4/18
• Advanced Role Based Access Controls
• Automatable via QS CLI and REST API
• VMware certified and VMware VAAI integrated

USE CASES

• Highly-available Large Scale Object Storage Archive
• Data Analytics
• Private Cloud Content Delivery Network
• Disk-to-Disk Backup via S3
• Next Generation Applications using S3 back-end

EXPANDABLE

Add additional drives and/or additional appliances to expand capacity. Drives can be different sizes, appliances can have different numbers of drives but for optimal performance uniform drive count and capacities per QS server/appliance is recommended.

EXPECTED PERFORMANCE

Adding appliances will boost performance as the configuration scales-out. Small 3x appliance configurations will deliver between 400MB/sec and 1.2GB/sec depending on object size and number of concurrent client connections. Erasure-coding is recommended for best write performance and replica mode is recommended for best read performance. Each appliance can present S3 access to object storage and load balancing of client connections across the appliances can be done in a variety of ways including round-robin DNS.

QUICK CONFIGURATION STEPS

Step One: Storage Management Tab → Controllers & Enclosures → Right-click Controller → Configure Pass-thru devices → Select all → Click OK
Step Two: Storage Management Tab → Storage Pools → Create Storage Pool → Click OK

For iSCSI Block Storage Provisioning:

• Storage Management Tab → Hosts → Add Host → Enter host IQN → Click OK (do this for each host)

• Storage Management Tab → Storage Volumes → Create Storage Volume → Enter volume name, select a size, → Click OK

• Storage Management Tab → Hosts → Right-click Host → Assign Volumes → Select volumes → Click OK

For NFS/SMB File Storage Provisioning:

• Storage Management Tab → Network Shares → Create Network Share → Click OK (do this for each share)

• Storage Management Tab → Network Shares → Modify Network Share & SMB Access → Adjust Settings → Click OK (do this for each share)

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

QuantaStor SAN/NAS Storage Appliances

Hardware	Networking	Licenses and Fees
Small and Medium Tier configurations use 2RU server with 12x drive bays. Large Tier configurations use 4RU server with 24x or 36x drive bays. All configurations include mirrored boot. All Hybrid configurations include 2x 800GB SSD for write acceleration.	2x 10GbE Private Network ports recommended for all configurations. Use LACP bonded network ports when NFS based Datastores are to be configured.	Select the OSNEXUS operating system QuantaStor license tier based on the amount of raw storage capacity. License, maintenance, upgrades, and support included.

CONFIGURATIONS

Hybrid SAN/NAS Configuration Options

Small Tier - Hybrid SAN/NAS – 16TB	Medium Tier - Hybrid SAN/NAS – 48TB	Large Tier - Hybrid SAN/NAS – 128TB	Extra-large Tier - Hybrid SAN/NAS – 256TB
2x E5-2620v4, 64GB RAM, 8x 2TB, QS Small Tier License 2x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports	2x E5-2620v4, 128GB RAM, 8x 6TB, QS Medium Tier License 2x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports	2x E5-2650v4, 128GB RAM, 16x 8TB, QS Large Tier License 2x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports	2x E5-2650v4, 256GB RAM, 32x 8TB, QS XL Tier License 2x 800GB SSDs (write log), 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports

All Flash Configuration Options

Small Tier – All-Flash SAN/NAS – 15.2TB	Medium Tier – All-Flash SAN/NAS – 41.8T
2x E5-2650v4, 128GB RAM, 8x 1.9TB SSD, QS Small Tier License 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot), 2x 10GbE Private Network ports	2x E5-2650v4, 128GB RAM, 22x 1.9TB SSD, QS Medium Tier License 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot), 2x 10GbE Private Network ports