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OSNEXUS QuantaStor SAN/NAS Storage Appliances

Key Features

QuantaStor’s SAN/NAS storage appliances provide a combination of file and block storage suitable for a broad spectrum of use cases. Each appliance contains SSD to accelerate write performance and each cluster must contain a minimum of 3x appliances. QuantaStor’s web based management interface, REST APIs and QS CLI make storage provisioning and automation easy.

Use Cases

File and/or Block storage for server virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, etc) Database Storage Data analytics NAS archive Disk-to-disk backup

Expandable Add additional drives to expand capacity. Additional appliances may be added to a given storage grid for easy management of all appliances across IBM datacenters. It is recommended to provision a 24 bay or 36 bay server with free drive bays available for expandability as expansion disk-enclosures are not available as an add-on except at the time of initial server/appliance deployment.

Expected Performance Each appliance is configured with at least one storage pool and each pool will deliver 400MB to 1.6GB/sec sequential throughput depending on block size and number of disks. IOPS are increased through the use of mirrored SSD storage configured as a write log which in turn will increase IOPS to 10K to 20K depending on block size and access patterns. All-Flash configurations will deliver over 100K sustained R/W IOPS.

Quick Configuration Steps Storage Management Tab -> Controllers & Enclosures -> right-click Controller -> Configure Pass-thru devices -> Select all -> Click OK Storage Management Tab -> Storage Pools -> Create Storage Pool -> Click OK For iSCSI Block Storage Provisioning: Storage Management Tab -> Hosts -> Add Host -> Enter host IQN -> Click OK (do this for each host) Storage Management Tab -> Storage Volumes -> Create Storage Volume -> Enter volume name, select a size, -> Click OK Storage Management Tab -> Hosts -> Right-click Host -> Assign Volumes -> Select volumes -> Click OK For NFS/SMB File Storage Provisioning: Storage Management Tab -> Network Shares -> Create Network Share -> Click OK (do this for each share) Storage Management Tab -> Network Shares -> Modify Network Share & SMB Access -> Adjust Settings - > Click OK (do this for each share)