+ IBM Cloud Overview
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
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.
QuantaStor scale-out storage clusters provide file, block and S3 compatible object storage which uses erasure-coding and replica based data distribution technology to achieve high-availability and fault-tolerance. These solutions provide highly-available iSCSI block and S3 object storage which scales-out across sites and servers.
QuantaStor’s NAS gateway storage appliances can be configured to have local NAS storage which is periodically backed-up to IBM Cloud Storage as objects or alternatively can be configured to cache some metadata but otherwise be a pure NAS pass-thru gateway to IBM Cloud Storage.
Solutions
QuantaStor’s scale-out block storage configurations provide highly-available iSCSI block storage suitable for a variety of use cases. Each appliance contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x appliances.
QuantaStor Software Defined Storage appliances 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 Configuration Guide describes the steps needed to configure QuantaStor SDS for deployments in the IBM Cloud environment. Reference Configurations for SAN/NAS Appliances, and Scale-out Block & Object Storage are available as well as the IBM Cloud QuantaStor Solution Design tools here.
