+ Installation Guide Overview
System Requirements
- Intel or AMD 64bit server (or virtual server)
- 1GB RAM
- 2 or more hard disks (SATA/SAS or virtual)
- 1 drive is needed for use as a dedicated system disk and must be 4GB or larger in size.
- Additional drives can be used to create storage pools.
- QuantaStor ISO Installation Media
Installation
Before booting to the QuantaStor installation media you'll first want to configure your system's BIOS to boot from CD/DVD so that the ISO install media loads first at boot time. Additionally, you'll want to configure the system disk, that is, the disk the system will boot to after installation has completed, to be the selected hard disk and second in the BIOS boot order after your CD/DVD drive.
Now that you have the BIOS configured, simply place the QuantaStor Install CD into the drive and boot your server. You will see the QuantaStor screen appear and it will automatically select 'English' as the default language and begin the installation process.
The first question you will be asked as part of the installation process is what do you want to name the host. By default the name 'quantastor' is given, but you can give the system any valid host name.
The next question you will be asked is with regard to network configuration. If you have a DHCP server running, then it won't ask you to configure the network at this time but rather will just use a dynamically assigned IP address from your DHCP server. You will then need to assign a static IP address to the system later when you login to the QuantaStor Manager web interface.
Finally, it will ask you which partitioning scheme to use. 'Guided installation', 'Guided installation w/LVM', and 'Guided installation w/Encrypted LVM'. If you are planning to mirror your boot drives for additional fault tolerance then choose the option w/LVM, otherwise choose the basic Guided installation. The next screen will ask you which disk you want to use as the system boot disk.
WARNING, this disk will be reformatted as part of the installation process so be careful to choose a disk that does not have data on it you end.
Installing QuantaStor can be summarized as follows:
