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'''Step One:''' Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK<br> | '''Step One:''' Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK<br> | ||
| − | '''Step Two:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd | + | '''Step Two:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd System IP → Click OK<br> |
| − | '''Step Three:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd | + | '''Step Three:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd System IP → Click OK<br> |
| − | '''Step Four:''' Storage Management Tab → Controllers & Enclosures → right-click Controller → Configure Pass-thru devices → Select all → Click OK (do this for each controller on each | + | '''Step Four:''' Storage Management Tab → Controllers & Enclosures → right-click Controller → Configure Pass-thru devices → Select all → Click OK (do this for each controller on each system)<br> |
'''Step Five:''' Cluster Resource Management → Create Site Cluster → Select All → Click OK<br> | '''Step Five:''' Cluster Resource Management → Create Site Cluster → Select All → Click OK<br> | ||
'''Step Six:''' Cluster Resource Management → Add Site Interface → Enter IP address for SMB/NFS Access → Click OK<br> | '''Step Six:''' Cluster Resource Management → Add Site Interface → Enter IP address for SMB/NFS Access → Click OK<br> | ||
| − | '''Step Seven:''' Storage | + | '''Step Seven:''' Scale-out Storage Configuration → Create Cluster → Create a Ceph Cluster using all the systems that will be used for the new scale-out NAS Storage Pool<br> |
| − | '''Step Eight:''' Scale-out | + | '''Step Eight:''' Scale-out Storage Configuration → Add OSDs & Journals → Add Data Devices & Journals by selecting the "Auto-Config" button and then press OK.<br> |
| − | '''Step Nine:''' Scale-out | + | '''Step Nine:''' Scale-out Storage Configuration → Scale-out Storage Pools → Create Scale-out File/NAS Storage Pool → Choose and Erasure Coding level → Click OK<br> |
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Latest revision as of 14:45, 19 August 2020
PENDING Release 5.4
QuantaStor Scale-out NAS Archive configurations provide highly-available file storage suitable archive applications with lower performance requirements. SSD is added to each appliance to accelerate write performance and each NAS Archive cluster must contain a minimum of 3x appliances.
Reference Configurations
Scale-out NAS Archive Storage
| Medium Tier - NAS Archive Storage – 48TB | Use Cases | System View |
| 2x E5-2620v4 128GB RAM 8x 6TB QS Medium Tier License 2x 960GB SSDs (write log) 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports |
Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases |
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| Large Tier - NAS Archive Storage – 128TB | Use Cases | System View |
| 2x E5-2650v4 128GB RAM 16x 8TB QS Large Tier License 2x 960GB SSDs (write log) 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports |
Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases |
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| Extra-large Tier - NAS Archive Storage – 256TB | Use Cases | System View |
| 2x E5-2650v4 256GB RAM 32x 8TB QS XL Tier License 2x 960GB SSDs (write log) 2x 1TB SATA (mirrored boot) 2x 10GbE Private Network ports |
Highly-available block storage for virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Scale-out block storage with Cinder integration for KVM based OpenStack deployments Highly-available block storage for databases |
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Quick Configuration Steps
Step One: Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK
Step Two: Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd System IP → Click OK
Step Three: Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd System IP → Click OK
Step Four: Storage Management Tab → Controllers & Enclosures → right-click Controller → Configure Pass-thru devices → Select all → Click OK (do this for each controller on each system)
Step Five: Cluster Resource Management → Create Site Cluster → Select All → Click OK
Step Six: Cluster Resource Management → Add Site Interface → Enter IP address for SMB/NFS Access → Click OK
Step Seven: Scale-out Storage Configuration → Create Cluster → Create a Ceph Cluster using all the systems that will be used for the new scale-out NAS Storage Pool
Step Eight: Scale-out Storage Configuration → Add OSDs & Journals → Add Data Devices & Journals by selecting the "Auto-Config" button and then press OK.
Step Nine: Scale-out Storage Configuration → Scale-out Storage Pools → Create Scale-out File/NAS Storage Pool → Choose and Erasure Coding level → Click OK
