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QuantaStor enables IT organizations to reach new levels of agility within the IBM Cloud with its unified file, block, and object storage and storage grid technology. Grid technology unifies QuantaStor storage server management across IBM data centers and simplify security enforcement and multi-server configuration tasks like setting up remote-replication. Designed, integrated and certified for use with all IBM mass storage servers QuantaStor solutions cover a broad spectrum of storage requirements and use cases, and features including storage for server virtualization, Veeam backups, analytics, and large scale backup and archive.

Reference Configurations

SAN/NAS Storage Servers

• QuantaStor’s SAN/NAS servers provided block (iSCSI) and file (NFS/SMB) storage for a variety of use cases. Hybrid configurations use a combination of HDDs and SSDs to provide fast, reliable, cost efficient storage for a variety of use cases including server virtualization, data analytics, backup storage and databases/OLTP.

Scale-out Block Storage Cluster

Scale-out Object Storage Cluster

NAS Gateway Appliance

Solutions

Scale-out NAS Archive Storage

Dedicated SAN/NAS Appliances for VMware

Deployment

IBM Cloud QuantaStor Server Provisioning Guide