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Welcome to the OSNEXUS wiki / online documentation site.

Here you will find all the documentation regarding OSNEXUS products including QuantaStor and QuantaGrid. General information on key product features and product screenshots can be found on the main product site here: http://www.osnexus.com.

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OSNEXUS QuantaStor Documentation

Overview

• What is QuantaStor?

Solution Design and HCL

• Solution Design & Sizing Guide
• Hardware Compatibility List / Recommended Hardware

Guides for Installation, Administration, and Host Configuration

• Installation Guide
  • 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.
• Getting Started Guide
  • The Getting Started Guide focuses on the initial configuration of your storage system after you have installed QuantaStor.
• Setup Workflows
  • Guide focuses on the steps for setting up different types of storage pools (ZFS, XFS, Gluster, Ceph)
• Administrators Guide
  • The Administrators Guide covers all aspects of managing the storage system.
• Web Admin Guide
  • The Web Admin Guide provides detail for the dialogues available in the WebUI.
• Users Guide and Host Configuration
  • The User's Guide focuses on host side configuration steps, such as multipath configuration and iSCSI initiator configuration.

Advanced Topics

• Upgrade Guide
  • The Upgrade Guide outlines how to upgrade your QuantaStor system or virtual appliance to the latest version.

• Monitoring & Cloud Metrics Integration Guide
  • The Monitoring and Metrics guides goes over call-home and monitoring mechanisms like SNMP, Librato Metrics, Zabbix, Nagios, CopperEgg and more.

• Command Line Interface Users Guide
  • The CLI User's Guide documents in detail all of the storage management commands that can be executed via the 'qs' utility both within the system or remotely via with Windows 'qs' remote management CLI.

• REST API Developers Guide
  • The Developers Guide outlines how one can manage the storage system directly using your own custom applications by leveraging the QuantaStor WebServices APIs.

• QuantaStor Custom Scripting / Application Extensions
  • Details on how to write custom scripts around various operations like pool start/stop, etc.

• Security Configuration
  • Custom SSL Certificates and TLS Security
    • Information on how to Generate and Install Custom SSL Certificates and set Custom TLS security settings.
  • Custom SSH Ciphers and Key Exchange Algorithms
    • Information on how to customize the ssh service to enforce strong Cipher and Key Exchange Algorithms for SSH communication.
  • Customizing Firewall Settings to Block Services
  • Security Updates
  • IPSec

• IO Performance Tuning
  • Storage Pool I/O Tuning and I/O Performance best practices.

• Troubleshooting Guide

• Driver Upgrade Guide

• QuantaStor Installation via USB Thumb Drive
  • Documentation on creating a QuantaStor Installer on a USB Thumb Drive

Application Integration

• Cloudera™ Hadoop Integration Guide
  • The Hadoop Integration Guide gives you an overview of the installation steps to get Hadoop running in your QuantaStor grid.

• Avid Media Composer™ + MediaHarmony Configuration Guide
  • An overview of QuantaStor configuration steps for use with Avid.

• R1Soft Backup Integration
  • Documentation on how to install the R1Soft Backup Agent

• Gladinet Integration
  • Documentation on setting up Gladinet's enterprise cloud file storage solution on QuantaStor.

• OpenStack Cinder
  • An explanation of how to setup OpenStack Cinder to use the QuantaStor adapter.

• HTTP File Access via Apache
  • Overview of how to access your files in your network shares directly via HTTP

Appendix

• Internal Architecture
  • Covers aspects of the internal architecture of the storage system.
• Terms & Definitions
  • Glossary of terms and concepts used in managing various aspects of a QuantaStor storage system.

• QuantaStor End User License Agreement(EULA), Support Guidelines and Terms of Support and Maintenance

Product Release Change Log and Security Updates

• Change Log
• Security Updates
• Product Version End-of-life Notifications