Guides:Index

Practical, in-depth guides to designing and running QuantaStor storage. Each guide links to the reference documentation for the features it covers.

Guides

• Asynchronous Remote Replication and Disaster Recovery Failover — Asynchronous remote replication keeps a second, mountable copy of your volumes and shares at another site, updated on a schedule by sending only the blocks that changed.
• Ceph over ZFS — Ceph over ZFS runs Ceph OSDs on ZFS Storage Volumes (zvols) instead of directly on Physical Disks.
• Encryption at Rest and FIPS Mode for On-Premises Storage — Encryption at rest protects the data on a storage pool's media, so drives that leave the data center, whether failed, stolen or decommissioned, can't be read without the keys.
• Fibre Channel and iSCSI Block Storage with ALUA Multipathing — QuantaStor presents storage volumes as block LUNs over Fibre Channel, through QLogic host bus adapters running in target mode, and over iSCSI, and it reports each path's state to the host with ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access).
• HA Cluster Setup (JBODs) — _TOC_
• High-availability VIF Management — Cluster virtual interfaces (VIFs) are floating IP addresses that move between the appliances of a site cluster so that a service address stays reachable when the appliance hosting it fails.
• ISCSI Target Configuration — QuantaStor presents each Storage Volume to iSCSI clients as its own target, with its own IQN, on the network ports you allow for iSCSI.
• Multi-Admin Approval for Destructive Storage Operations — Multi-admin approval is a two-person rule for data-destructive operations: when it is enabled, a delete of a protected object type is held as a pending request until a set number of administrators approve it.
• Network Ports —
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• Nightly Database Analysis from iSCSI Snapshots — Offline database analysis means running reports, audits and heavy queries against a point-in-time copy of production data on a separate server, so that the production database never sees the load.
• Snapshot Schedules — A Snapshot Schedule takes point-in-time snapshots of a chosen set of Storage Volumes and Network Shares on a repeating schedule, and rotates them so each volume and share keeps a moving window of recovery points.
• Tiering On-Premises Object Storage to AWS S3 with Lifecycle Policies — Cloud tiering moves older objects from a local S3 bucket to a bucket at AWS while the bucket keeps serving the same namespace.