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+ | Add additional drives and/or additional appliances to expand capacity. Drives can be different sizes, appliances can have different numbers of drives but for optimal performance uniform drive count and capacities per QS server/appliance are recommended. | ||
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+ | == Quick Configuration Steps == | ||
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+ | '''Step One:''' Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK<br> | ||
+ | '''Step Two:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd Appliance IP → Click OK<br> | ||
+ | '''Step Three:''' Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd Appliance 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 appliance)<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 Seven:''' Storage Management Tab → Storage Pool → Create Storage Pool → Create one pool (XFS type) per device per appliance<br> | ||
+ | '''Step Eight:''' Scale-out File Storage Tab → Gluster Volumes → Peer Setup → Select all appliances → Click OK<br> | ||
+ | '''Step Nine:''' Scale-out File Storage Tab → Gluster Volumes → Create Volume → Enter name, select all Pools and Erasure Coding mode → Click OK<br> | ||
+ | '''Step Ten:''' Storage Management Tab → Network Shares → right-click share for volume → Select Modify Share & SMB Access → Adjust access settings → Click OK |
Revision as of 10:41, 2 May 2019
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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Expandable
Add additional drives and/or additional appliances to expand capacity. Drives can be different sizes, appliances can have different numbers of drives but for optimal performance uniform drive count and capacities per QS server/appliance are recommended.
Quick Configuration Steps
Step One: Storage Management Tab → Create Grid → Click OK
Step Two: Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 2nd Appliance IP → Click OK
Step Three: Storage Management Tab → Add Grid Node → Enter 3nd Appliance 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 appliance)
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: Storage Management Tab → Storage Pool → Create Storage Pool → Create one pool (XFS type) per device per appliance
Step Eight: Scale-out File Storage Tab → Gluster Volumes → Peer Setup → Select all appliances → Click OK
Step Nine: Scale-out File Storage Tab → Gluster Volumes → Create Volume → Enter name, select all Pools and Erasure Coding mode → Click OK
Step Ten: Storage Management Tab → Network Shares → right-click share for volume → Select Modify Share & SMB Access → Adjust access settings → Click OK