+ Installation Guide Overview

Overview

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 the installation guide and proceed to the Getting Started Guide for initial configuration instructions and the Administrators Guide for more advanced configuration.

• • Preparing USB/ISO Installation Media
    • Documentation on creating a bootable QuantaStor Installer on a USB thumb-drive for bare-metal install
  • Upgrade Guide
    • The Upgrade Guide outlines how to upgrade your QuantaStor system or virtual appliance to the latest version.

Minimum Appliance Requirements

• Intel Xeon or AMD x64 bit server (or virtual server)
• 16GB RAM for bare-metal/physical appliances -or- 4GB RAM for virtual storage appliances (VSAs)
  • The QuantaStor Appliance will install and run in 4GB of RAM. With this memory configuration basic functionality will work. Certain QuantaStor features such as Gluster and Ceph will require additional memory. For a production class machine, a general rule of thumb is 1GB RAM per 1TB of disk. For QuantaStor Silver Standard Edition, Gold and Platinum Enterprise Editions OSNEXUS support will assist in proper hardware sizing for each deployment.
• 2x disks for system/boot drives (SATA/SAS or virtual)
  • Boot drives should be hardware mirrored and should be at least 100GB in size
• One or more disks per appliance for storage pools.
  • Block devices used to create storage pools can be of any type (SSD/NVMe/PCI SSD/SATA/SAS/FC/iSCSI/AoE)
• Download QuantaStor USB/ISO Installation Media for installation
  • The QuantaStor ISO image is a hybrid ISO that allows for installation from DVD media or USB media like thumb-drives. More detail on creating a USB bootable flash drive for installing QuantaStor is available here.