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Welcome to the OSNEXUS wiki / online documentation site.

Here you will find all the documentation regarding OSNEXUS products including QuantaStor and QuantaGrid. General information on key product features and product screenshots can be found on the main product site here: http://www.osnexus.com.

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OSNEXUS QuantaStor Documentation

• What is QuantaStor?
• Solution Design & Sizing Guide
• Recommended Hardware / HCL
• Installation Guide
  • The Installation Guide takes you step-by-step through the process of installing the QuantaStor Storage System OS on your server hardware from our ISO media. If you are using a QuantaStor virtual appliance, you can skip this step and proceed to the Users Guide for configuration instructions, then continue with the Getting Started Guide.
• Upgrade Guide
  • The Upgrade Guide outlines how to upgrade your QuantaStor system or virtual appliance to the latest version.
• Getting Started Guide
  • The Getting Started Guide focuses on the initial configuration of your storage system after you have installed QuantaStor.
• Administrators Guide
  • The Administrators Guide covers all aspects of managing the storage system.
• Monitoring & Cloud Metrics Integration Guide
  • The Monitoring and Metrics guides goes over call-home and monitoring mechanisms like SNMP, Librato Metrics, Zabbix, Nagios, CopperEgg and more.
• QuantaStor Custom Scripting / Application Extensions
  • Details on how to write custom scripts around various operations like pool start/stop, etc.
• Cloudera™ Hadoop Integration Guide
  • The Hadoop Integration Guide gives you an overview of the installation steps to get Hadoop running in your QuantaStor grid.
• Avid Media Composer™ + MediaHarmony Configuration Guide
  • An overview of QuantaStor configuration steps for use with Avid.
• OpenStack Cinder
  • An explanation of how to setup OpenStack Cinder to use the QuantaStor adapter.
• Gladinet Integration
  • Documentation on setting up Gladinet's enterprise cloud file storage solution on QuantaStor.
• Terms & Definitions
  • Glossary of terms and concepts used in managing various aspects of a QuantaStor storage system.
• Users Guide
  • The User's Guide focuses on host side configuration steps, such as multipath configuration and iSCSI initiator configuration.
• IO Performance Tuning
• Command Line Interface Users Guide
  • The CLI User's Guide documents in detail all of the storage management commands that can be executed via the 'qs' utility both within the system or remotely via with Windows 'qs' remote management CLI.

• Internal Architecture
  • Covers aspects of the internal architecture of the storage system.
• Developers Guide
  • The Developers Guide outlines how one can manage the storage system directly using your own custom applications by leveraging the QuantaStor WebServices APIs.
• Web Admin Guide
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Driver Upgrade Guide
• Security Updates
• Change Log