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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.
• 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.

• Custom SSL Certificates
  • Information on how to Generate and Install Custom SSL Certificates and set Custom TLS security settings.

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

• Troubleshooting Guide

• Driver Upgrade Guide

• 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.

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

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

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

QuantaStor ChangeLog and Security Updates

• Change Log
• Security Updates