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== QuantaStor Server Deployment Guide ==
 
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The following step-by-step process is designed to assist you select, order and provision the QuantaStor server on IBM Cloud Bare Metal that best fits your requirements:
 
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1. Choose the QuantaStor solution to match your use case.  QuantaStor is versatile storage software with capabilities that are divided broadly into scale-up file and block solutions or scale-out file, block and object solutions.  More information regarding QuantaStor capabilities are published in the Solution Matrix here. <br>
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2. Click on the specific Solution links below for detailed help with IBM Cloud hardware selection and QuantaStor provisioning instructions that follow OSNEXUS best practice guidelines.  Each of our solution guides has specific hardware reference configurations based on the storage capacity of your QuantaStor server, or you can customize your build using our Solution Design Tool for IBM Cloud here.<br>
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3. Detailed QuantaStor documentation can be found here.
  
  

Revision as of 11:21, 7 May 2019

QuantaStor 5 appliances on Bare Metal servers deliver new levels of agility to IT organizations seeking dedicated, highly-secure and hyper-scalable storage solutions across the IBM Cloud. Featuring unified file, block and object protocol support, and unique grid management technology, QuantaStor storage appliances address a broad set of workloads including server virtualization, big data, cloud backup, media editing, deep archive, and high-performance compute applications. QuantaStor 5 is designed, integrated and certified for use with all Mass Storage Servers in IBM Cloud datacenters worldwide.

QuantaStor Server Deployment Guide

The following step-by-step process is designed to assist you select, order and provision the QuantaStor server on IBM Cloud Bare Metal that best fits your requirements: 1. Choose the QuantaStor solution to match your use case. QuantaStor is versatile storage software with capabilities that are divided broadly into scale-up file and block solutions or scale-out file, block and object solutions. More information regarding QuantaStor capabilities are published in the Solution Matrix here.
2. Click on the specific Solution links below for detailed help with IBM Cloud hardware selection and QuantaStor provisioning instructions that follow OSNEXUS best practice guidelines. Each of our solution guides has specific hardware reference configurations based on the storage capacity of your QuantaStor server, or you can customize your build using our Solution Design Tool for IBM Cloud here.
3. Detailed QuantaStor documentation can be found here.


Solution Integrations

QuantaStor NAS gateway systems can be configured to periodically back-up local NAS storage to IBM Cloud Object Storage as objects or cache metadata as a pure NAS pass-thru gateway to IBM Cloud Object Storage.

QuantaStor Software Defined Storage Systems are designed with high-availability and scale-out features needed for mission-critical desktop and server virtualization solutions. QuantaStor storage servers provide VMware certified NFS and iSCSI storage with advanced features including encryption, compression, and remote-replication.

Deployment

The QuantaStor Provisioning Guide provides easy-to-follow instructions for the optimal configuration and set up of your QuantaStor solutions in the IBM Cloud. The Guide includes reference configurations for each of the QuantaStor 5 on IBM Cloud Bare Metal solutions, including SAN/NAS System, Scale-out Block & Object systems and NAS Gateway systems.