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| [[Storage System Eula|End User License Agreement]] | | [[Storage System Eula|End User License Agreement]] |
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| === License Key Management ===
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| All QuantaStor editions and product features are controlled by license key. If you have a system deployment that requires additional features or capacity your system can be expanded by adding an expansion license to your existing system license. When you add a new license you must activate it within one week after adding it or it will be deactivated. To activate your license simply choose the 'Activate Online' option. Alternatively, if your system does not have internet access you can use the 'Activate via Email' option.
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| * [[Storage System License Manager|License Key Management]]
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| * [[Storage System License Add|Adding License Keys]]
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| * [[Storage System License Activate Online|Activating License Key Online]]
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| * [[Storage System License Activate Email|Activating Licenses via Email]]
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| * [[System License Remove|Removing License Keys]]
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| === General System Configuration & Management ===
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| These core system configuration dialogs include most of the key administrative operations use to initially configure, upgrade, and maintain your system.
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| * [[Storage System Checklist|System Configuration Checklist]]
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| * [[Storage System Modify|Modifying System hostname & DNS configuration]]
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| * [[Storage System Upgrade Manager|Online Upgrades]]
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| * [[Storage System Alert Manager|Call Home / Alert Management Configuration]]
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| * [[Storage System User Alert|Testing Alert Management Configuration]]
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| * [[Storage System Recovery Manager|Recovering System Configuration Information]]
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| * [[Storage System Shutdown/Restart]]
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| * [[Send System Log Report|Sending System Configuration and Logs to Customer Support]]
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| === Network Interface Management ===
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| QuantaStor has a broad set of network management features including bonding/teaming, virtual interfaces and VLANs.
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| * [[Network Port Modify|Configuring Network Port Settings]]
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| * [[Network Port Rescan|Rescanning Network Ports]]
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| * [[Network Port Restart|Restarting Network Ports]]
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| * [[Network Port Create VP|Creating Virtual Interfaces]]
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| * [[Network Port Delete VP|Deleting Virtual Interfaces]]
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| * [[Network Port Create Bonded Port|Creating Bonded Port]]
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| * [[Network Port Delete Bonded Port|Deleting Bonded Port]]
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| === Hardware RAID Controller Management ===
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| QuantaStor supports the use of both hardware RAID and software RAID. When used together it provides many advantages both in terms of performance and ease of maintenance. Integrated hardware management modules are built into QuantaStor for LSI MegaRAID, Adaptec, HP SmartArray, Dell PERC, and other controllers. Please see our HCL for a full list of which adapters have integrated hardware management support.
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| * [[Rescan Hardware Controllers|Rescanning Controllers for new Disks]]
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| * [[Hardware Controller Rescan|Rescanning a Specific RAID Controller]]
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| * [[Hardware Controller Identify Unit|Identifying Hardware RAID Units in an Enclosure/Chassis]]
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| * [[Hardware_Controller_Clear_Events_Alarms|Clearing RAID Controller Events/Alerts]]
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| * [[Hardware Controller Silence Alarm|Silencing Controller Alarms]]
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| * [[Hardware Controller Import RAID Units|Importing Foreign RAID Units/Virtual Devices]]
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| * [[Hardware Controller Create RAID Unit|Creating a new Hardware RAID Unit]]
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| * [[Hardware_Disk_Mark_Hotspare|Mark/Un-mark Hardware RAID Hot-spare]]
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| * [[Hardware_Controller_Create_Ssd_Cache_Enable|Enabling SSD Caching on a Hardware RAID Unit]]
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| * [[Hardware_Controller_Create_Ssd_Cache_Disable|Disabling the SSD Cache on a Hardware RAID Unit]]
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| === Physical Disk Management ===
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| Hard disk drives of all types including SAS, SATA, and SSD appear to your QuantaStor System as disks. Although we use the term ''physical disk'', in cases where hardware RAID is used the ''physical disk'' drives are actually logical drives (aka RAID units / virtual disks) coming from the hardware RAID controller. QuantaStor can also be configured to use virtual disks as storage when deployed as a virtual system and can also use storage devices from other storage systems when configured as a gateway system.
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| * [[Physical Disk Identify|Identifying Physical Disks within Enclosure/Chassis]]
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| * [[Physical Disk Scan|Scanning for newly added Physical Disks]]
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| === Storage Pool Management ===
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| A storage pool is a logical grouping of disks into a ''pool'' from which volumes (LUNs) and network shares can be provisioned. QuantaStor has support for ZFS, and XFS based storage pools. ZFS based storage pools are the most powerful and the most versatile but XFS based storage pools have some performance advantages for some applications. One a pool is provisioned you can provision ''storage volumes'' and ''network shares'' using available space in the storage pool.
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| * [[Create Storage Pool|Creating new Storage Pools]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Grow|Growing an existing Storage Pool]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Stop|Stopping/Offline Storage Pool]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Export|Exporting a Storage Pool for Importing on another System]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Recover]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Remove Spare|Remove Hot-spare]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Delete|Deleting Storage Pools]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Identify|Identifying Storage Pools within an Enclosure/Chassis]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Start|Starting an Offline Storage Pool]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Modify|Modifying Storage Pool Configuration Settings]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Rescan|Rescanning for Newly Added Storage Pools]]
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| * [[Storage Pool Expand|Expanding Storage Pools]]
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| === Network Share Management (CIFS/NFS) ===
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| Network shares provide network attached storage (NAS) capabilities. Each network share is provisioned from a specific ''storage pool'' so you must first create a pool of storage before provisioning shares. Once created you can control NFS and CIFS access to network shares.
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| * [[Network Share Create|Creating Network Shares]]
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| * [[Modify Network Share|Modifying Network Shares]]
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| * [[Network Share Configure|Configuring NFS Service Settings]]
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| * [[Network Share Delete|Deleting Network Shares]]
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| * [[Network Share Snapshot|Creating Network Share Snapshots]]
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| * [[Network Share Restore|Restoring Network Share from Snapshot]]
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| * [[Add NFS Client Access|Add Client Access]]
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| * [[Network Share Modify Client Access|Modify Client Access]]
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| * [[Network Share Remove Client Access|Remove Client Access]]
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| * [[Network Share Access Settings|Access Settings]]
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| * [[Restart NFS Services|Restarting NFS Service]]
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| === Network Share Namespace Management ===
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| Network Shares Namespaces use Microsoft DFS and NFSv4 referrals to provide global namespace capabilities across the grid.
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| * [[Network Share Namespace Create|Creating Network Share Namespaces]]
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| * [[Network Share Namespace Modify|Modifying Network Share Namespace]]
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| * [[Network Share Namespace Add Remove|Adding/Removing Shares from Network Share Namespaces]]
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| * [[Network Share Namespace Delete|Deleting Network Share Namespace]]
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| === Storage Volume Management (iSCSI/FC LUNs) ===
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| Storage volumes (LUNs) are block devices which are made accessible via the iSCSI and/or FibreChannel protocols. Each storage volume is provisioned from a specific ''Storage Pool'' on a specific node within a grid of systems. In order to make a ''storage volume'' accessible to a host you must first add a ''Host'' to the system, then assign the storage to it.
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| * [[Storage Volume Create|Creating Storage Volumes (iSCSI/FC LUNs)]]
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| * [[Storage Volumes Delete|Deleting Storage Volumes]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Modify|Modify Storage Volume Properties]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Clone|Clone Storage Volume]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Snapshot|Snapshot Storage Volume]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Resize|Resize Storage Volume]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Assign|Assign Storage Volume to Host]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Restore|Restore Storage Volume from Snapshot]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Advanced Settings|Storage Volume Advanced Settings]]
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| === Storage Volume Group Management ===
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| Storage volume groups provide a easy way to keep track of volumes when multiple are assigned or utilized for the same host. In cases where the volumes in a group reside within an Advanced storage pool you can also create snapshots of volume groups.
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Create|Creating Storage Volume Groups]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Snapshot|Creating Storage Volume Group Snapshots]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Modify|Modify Storage Volume Group Properties]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Delete|Deleting Storage Volume Groups]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Clone|Cloning a Storage Volume Group]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Group Add/Remove Volumes|Adding/Removing Volumes from a Storage Volume Group]]
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| === Snapshot Schedule Management ===
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| Snapshot schedules can be created to make instant snapshots of volumes for quick and easy recovery and rollback of data. To take advantage of Snapshots you must create a Storage Pool based on the ZFS filesystem which is the default.<br>
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| * [[Snapshot Schedule Add/Remove Volumes|Add/Remote Volumes from a Schedule]]
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| * [[Snapshot Schedule Create|Creating Instant Snapshot Schedules]]
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| * [[Snapshot Schedule Delete|Deleting Snapshot Schedules]]
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| * [[Modify Snapshot Schedule|Modifying Snapshot Schedules]]
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| * [[Snapshot Enable Schedule|Enabling a Snapshot Schedule]]
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| * [[Snapshot Disable Schedule|Disabling a Snapshot Schedule]]
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| === Host Dialogs ===
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| A host entry must be added for each host that you want to assign storage volumes to. The host entry stores one or more initiator IDs which can include one or more FC WWPN and/or one or more iSCSI initiator IQNs.<br>
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| * [[Host Add|Adding a Host]]
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| * [[Assign Storage Volumes|Assigning Volumes To Hosts]]
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| * [[Host Remove|Removing a Host]]
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| * [[Host Modify|Modifying Host Properties]]
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| * [[Add Host Initiator|Adding a Host Initiator]]
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| * [[Remove Host Initiator|Removing a Host Initiator]]
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| === Host Group Management ===
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| Host groups represent a collection of one or more Hosts. It's a convince object which allows you to group hosts together so that you can assign storage to the group in a single operation rather than having to assign storage to individual hosts which can take more time. Host groups are especially useful for use with VMware clusters and XenServer resource pools as in such cases all hosts in the group require shared access to the same group of disks.<br>
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| * [[Host Group Create|Creating Host Groups]]
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| * [[Host Group Add Remove|Adding/Removing Hosts from a Host Group]]
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| * [[Host Group Delete|Deleting Host Groups]]
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| * [[Host Group Modify|Modifying Host Group Properties]]
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| === Grid Management ===
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| Multiple QuantaStor nodes can be managed as a grid. One node will be assigned to be the primary node.
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| * [[Add Management Grid | Add Nodes to the Grid]]
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| * [[Modify Management Grid | Modify Nodes in the Grid]]
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| * [[Remove Grid Node | Remove a Node in the Grid]]
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| * [[Delete Management Grid | Delete the Grid]]
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| * [[Select Primary Node | Select the Node to be Primary]]
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| == Users & Groups Tab ==
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| [[file:QSTR mgr Users & Groups Ribbon.jpg]]
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| === User Management ===
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| * [[User Add|Adding new User Accounts]]
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| * [[User Modify|Modifying a User]]
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| * [[User Remove|Removing a User]]
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| * [[User Set Password|Changing a User Password]]
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| === User Group Management ===
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| * [[User Group Create|Creating User Groups]]
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| * [[User Group Delete|Deleting User Groups]]
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| * [[User Group Modify|Modifying User Group Properties]]
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| * [[User Group Add/Remove Users|Adding/Removing Users from a Group]]
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| === User Role Management ===
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| * [[Role Create|Creating new User Roles]]
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| * [[Role Modify|Modifying a User Role]]
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| * [[Role Delete]]
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| * [[Role Update Permissions]]
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| === Multi-tenant Group Management (Resource Groups) ===
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| ==== Resource Groups ====
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| * [[Create Resource Group]]
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| * [[Add/Remove Resource Users and User Groups | Add/Remove Users]]
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| * [[Modify Resource Group]]
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| * [[Delete Resource Group]]
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| * [[Add/Remove Resources Group Resources | Add/Remove Resources]]
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| ==== Provisioning Quotas ====
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| * [[Create Provisioning Quota|Setting Quotas on Resource Groups]]
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| * [[Add-Remove_Volumes_for_Provisioning_Quota|Adding/Removing Volumes to/from a Quota]]
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| * [[Modify_Provisioning_Quota|Modifying Quotas]]
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| * [[Delete Provisioning Quota|Deleting Quotas]]
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| * [[Add-Remove Shares to-from Provisioning|Adding/Removing Network Shares to/from a Quota]]
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| == Remote Replication Tab ==
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| [[file:QSTR mgr Remote Replication Ribbon.jpg]]
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| === Remote Replication Configuration ===
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| ==== Setting up remote replication links between grid nodes ====
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| * [[Create Link|Create a Storage System Link]]
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| * [[Delete Link|Delete a Storage System Link]]
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| * [[Modify Link|Modify a Storage System Link]]
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| * [[Set Password Link|Set the Storage System Link Password]]
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| ==== Managing Remote Replica Associations ====
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| * [[Create Volume Replica]]
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| * [[Create Share Replica]]
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| * [[Delete Replica|Delete a Replica]]
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| * [[Resume Replica|Resume a Replica]]
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| * [[Stop Replica|Stop a Replica]]
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| ==== Setting up Replication Schedules ====
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| * [[Create Replication Schedules|Create a Replication Schedule]]
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| * [[Modify Replication Schedules|Modify a Replication Schedule]]
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| * [[Delete Replication Schedule|Delete a Replication Schedule]]
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| * [[Add/Remove Replication Schedule|Add or Remove a Replication Schedule]]
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| * [[Enable Replication Schedule|Enable a Replication Schedule]]
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| * [[Disable Replication Schedule|Disable a Replication Schedule]]
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| == Cloud Containers Tab==
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| [[file:QSTR mgr Cloud Container Ribbon.jpg]]
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| === Cloud Storage Provider ===
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| * [[Add Cloud Provider Credentials]]
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| * [[Remove Cloud Provider Credentials]]
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| === Cloud Container ===
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| * [[Create Cloud Storage Container|Creating a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Add Cloud Storage Container|Adding a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Enable Cloud Storage Container|Enabling a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Modify Cloud Storage Container|Modifying a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Delete Cloud Storage Container|Deleting a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Remove Cloud Storage Container|Removing a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Disable Cloud Storage Container|Disabling a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| * [[Repair Cloud Storage Container|Repairing a Cloud Storage Container]]
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| === Cloud Backup Schedule ===
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| * [[Create Cloud Backup Schedule|Creating a Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| * [[Modify Cloud Backup Schedule|Modifying a Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| * [[Cloud Backup Schedule Delete|Deleting a Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| * [[Update Cloud Backup Schedule|Updating Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| == Cloud Backup Tab ==
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| [[file:QSTR mgr CloudBkupTab.png]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Cloud Backup Create]]
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| * [[Storage Volume Cloud Backup Restore]]
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| === Cloud Storage Providers ===
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| === Cloud Storage Containers ===
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| === Cloud Backup Schedules ===
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| * [[Create Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| * [[Modify Cloud Backup Schedule]]
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| * [[Cloud Backup Schedule Enable]]
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| * [[Cloud Backup Schedule Disable]]
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| * [[Cloud Backup Schedule Delete]]
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| * [[Cloud Backup Schedule Update Volumes]]
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