QuantaStor Manager Web Admin Guide: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:43, 26 July 2013

The QuantaStor Manager Web Administration interface is accessible via all major we browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, & Internet Explorer). The QuantaStor console will display the public facing ip address at the CLI log-in screen. Simply use this ip address in the address bar of your browser to reach the initial Login screen.

The following guide provides details into the various dialogue windows used to manage the QuantaStor system. Using the help button on each dialogue box in the Web Admin you can look up specific details or you can simply browse through the following guide.

QuantaStor Manager Overview

The following sections outline all of the operations and dialogs presented in the QuanaStor Manager web management interface. Select a topic for more detail on a specific dialog or area of management. Note that all operations presented herein are accessible via the QuantaStor command line interface and REST APIs.

Configuring a secure connection to the QuantaStor Manager

The Web Administration will support a secure connection when using https:// to connect. By default both types of connections are supported.

Login Screen

The default admin password for QuantaStor is simply 'password'. If you do not enter a password it will assume the default and will attempt to login to the system with 'password'. The administrator user name is simply 'admin'. It is recommended that you change the administrator password the first time you login to the system. If you are having trouble logging in, try hitting the reload button on your browser as this will re-download the web based management interface. Sometimes, especially after an upgrade you'll need to be sure to do that.

Object Properties

Every object in the QuantaStor Manager stores details about the configuration. These details are displayed either in the Properties Pane on the right side of the manager screen or by right-clicking on the object and selecting Properties from the menu. The resulting Properties window also contains a Security tab. With the security tab, administrators can choose to limit who has access to the particular object via the Quantastor Manager.

Properties Dialog Window

Storage Management Tab

End User License Agreement

License Key Management

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.

General System Configuration & Management

These core system configuration dialogs include most of the key administrative operations use to initially configure, upgrade, and maintain your system.

Network Interface Management

QuantaStor has a broad set of network management features including bonding/teaming, virtual interfaces and VLANs.

Hardware RAID Controller Management

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.

Physical Disk Management

Hard disk drives of all types including SAS, SATA, and SSD appear to your QuantaStor appliance 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 appliance and can also use storage devices from other storage systems when configured as a gateway appliance.

Storage Pool Management

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, XFS, and BTRFS 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.

Network Share Management (CIFS/NFS)

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.

Storage Volume Management (iSCSI/FC LUNs)

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.

Storage Volume Group Management

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.

Snapshot Schedule Management

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 first enable the btrfs filesystem when the pool is first created.

Host Dialogs

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.

Host Group Management

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.

Grid Management

Multiple QuantaStor nodes can be managed as a grid. One node will be assigned to be the primary node.

Users & Groups Tab

User Management

User Group Management

User Role Management

Storage Cloud Dialogs

Storage Cloud Management (Multi-tenancy)

Setting Quotas on Storage Clouds

Adding/Removing Volumes to/from a Quota

Modifying Quotas

Deleting Quotas

Adding/Removing Network Shares to/from a Quota

Remote Replication Tab

Remote Replication Configuration

Remote Replication Dialogs

Replication Schedule

Create a Replication Schedule

Modify a Replication Schedule

Delete a Replication Schedule

Add or Remove a Replication Schedule

Enable a Replication Schedule

Disable a Replication Schedule

Cloud Containers Tab

Switch Management Tab

Storage Switches

Adding Credentials

Removing Credentials

Switch Failover Group

Creating a Switch Failover Group

Deleting a Switch Failover Group

Modifying a Switch Failover Group

Activating a Switch Failover Group

Setting Failover Group Activation Mode

Cloud Backup Tab

Storage Volume Cloud Backup Create

Storage Volume Cloud Backup Restore

Cloud Storage Providers

Cloud Storage Containers

Cloud Backup Schedules

Cloud Backup Schedule Create

Cloud Backup Schedule Modify

Cloud Backup Schedule Enable

Cloud Backup Schedule Disable

Cloud Backup Schedule Delete

Cloud Backup Schedule Update Volumes

Not Yet Implemented

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