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Revision as of 21:48, 6 July 2010

The QuantaStor Administrators Guide is intended for all administrators and cloud users who plan to manage their storage using QuantaStor Manager as well as for those just looking to get a deeper understanding of how the QuantaStor Storage System Platform (SSP) works.

Definitions

The following series of definitions are here to lay the ground work and context for the rest of the document. Here we define all the various objects and elements that can be managed using QuantaStor.

Storage System

The storage system is the object that represents the entire iSCSI server both from a physical and logical standpoint. This includes all the physical disks, fans, enclosures, power supplies and other physical elements of the system as well as all the logical elements including the storage pools, volumes, users, and storage clouds.

Storage Pool

The storage pool is an aggregation of one or more physical disks into a larger entity. Each storage pool has a single RAID type associated with it, and all storage volumes that are created within that storage pool inherit RAID type. For example, if a given storage pool of type RAID1 (mirroring) is made up to two 1TB disks, then there is 1TB of usable storage available to create storage volumes (LUNs) with.

Storage Volume

Storage Volume Group

Snapshot Schedules

Host

Host Group

Storage Cloud

Storage Quota

Roles

Permissions

Users

User Groups

Target Port

Sessions

CHAP Authentication

Alerts

Events

Tasks

Target Port Configuration

NIC Bonding / Trunking

Alert Settings

Managing Hosts

Managing Snapshot Schedules

Near Continuous Data Replication (N-CDP)

Managing Sessions

Dropping Sessions

Managing Storage Volumes

Creating & Deleting Storage Volumes

Creating Snapshots

Creating Clones

Restoring from Snapshots

Converting a Snapshot into a Primary