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Welcome to the OSNEXUS QuantaStor online documentation site. The following guides and sections cover all aspects of QuantaStor SDS configuration from installation to integration with 3rd party software.  
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Welcome to the OSNEXUS QuantaStor online documentation site. The following guides and sections cover all aspects of QuantaStor SDS configuration from installation to integration with 3rd party software. General information on key product [http://www.osnexus.com/quantastor-features features] and product [http://www.osnexus.com/qs-screens screenshots] can be found on the main product site here: [http://www.osnexus.com http://www.osnexus.com].
 
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== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
 
==== [[What is QuantaStor?]] ====
 
==== [[What is QuantaStor?]] ====
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==== Free Trial Edition & Community Edition Download ====
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The QuantaStor SDS v4 ISO image and license keys for Trial Edition (128TB) and Community Edition (20TB) are available for '''[https://www.osnexus.com/downloads download here.]''' 
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QuantaStor SDS uses a single ISO image for all editions.  Features are license key controlled so a Community Edition appliance can be upgraded to Enterprise Edition with a license key upgrade.
  
 
== Solution Design Guide and HCL ==
 
== Solution Design Guide and HCL ==
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=== [[QuantaStor Administrators Guide|Administrators Guide]] ===
 
=== [[QuantaStor Administrators Guide|Administrators Guide]] ===
* The Administrators Guide covers all aspects of managing the storage system.   
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* The [[QuantaStor Administrators Guide| Administrators Guide]] covers all aspects of managing QuantaStor appliances and storage system grids.   
==== [[Clustered HA SAN/NAS with JBOD back-end|Clustered HA SAN/NAS with JBOD back-end / Administrators Guide (ZFS-based) ]] ====
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* Detailed walk-thru of how to setup a highly-available ZFS storage pool using a shared SAS disk enclosure.  ([[Clustered HA SAN/NAS (ZFS based) Storage Pool Setup|old documentation here]])
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==== [[Clustered HA SAN/NAS with iSCSI/FC SAN back-end|Clustered HA SAN/NAS with iSCSI/FC SAN back-end / Administrators Guide (ZFS-based) ]] ====
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==== Advanced Administration Guides ====
* Detailed walk-thru of how to setup a highly-available ZFS storage pool using a 3rd Party or QuantaStor iSCSI/FC as back-end storage
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: [[Remote-replication / Disaster Recovery Setup|Remote-replication / Disaster Recovery Administrators Guide]]
 
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: [[Clustered HA SAN/NAS with JBOD back-end|Clustered HA SAN/NAS with JBOD back-end ]]
==== [[Scale-out NAS (Gluster based) Storage Setup|Scale-out NAS Administrators Guide (GlusterFS-based) ]] ====
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: [[Clustered HA SAN/NAS with iSCSI/FC SAN back-end|Clustered HA SAN/NAS with iSCSI/FC SAN back-end ]]
* Detailed walk-thru covering setup and configuration of scale-out file storage (NFS/CIFS/GlusterFS)
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: [[Scale-out NAS (Gluster based) Storage Setup|Scale-out NAS Administrators Guide (GlusterFS-based) ]]
 
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: [[Scale-out SAN (Ceph based) Storage Setup|Scale-out SAN Administrators Guide (Ceph-based) ]]
==== [[Scale-out SAN (Ceph based) Storage Setup|Scale-out SAN Administrators Guide (Ceph-based) ]] ====
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* Detailed walk-thru covering setup and configuration of scale-out block storage (iSCSI/Ceph client)
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* Detailed walk-thru covering setup and configuration of scale-out object storage (S3/SWIFT)
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* Detailed walk-thru of how to setup remote replication for ZFS based storage pools
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=== [[QuantaStor Manager Web Admin Guide|Web Admin Guide]] ===
 
=== [[QuantaStor Manager Web Admin Guide|Web Admin Guide]] ===
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==== [[QuantaStor Driver Upgrades|Driver Upgrade Guide]] ====
 
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* Instructions on how to build new device drivers for newly released hardware
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== Security Configuration ==
 
== Security Configuration ==

Revision as of 12:51, 3 March 2017

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Welcome to the OSNEXUS QuantaStor online documentation site. The following guides and sections cover all aspects of QuantaStor SDS configuration from installation to integration with 3rd party software. General information on key product features and product screenshots can be found on the main product site here: http://www.osnexus.com.

Overview

What is QuantaStor?

Free Trial Edition & Community Edition Download

The QuantaStor SDS v4 ISO image and license keys for Trial Edition (128TB) and Community Edition (20TB) are available for download here.

QuantaStor SDS uses a single ISO image for all editions. Features are license key controlled so a Community Edition appliance can be upgraded to Enterprise Edition with a license key upgrade.

Solution Design Guide and HCL

Before building a QuantaStor appliance, please review our solution design and hardware compatibility guides to ensure that you're hardware is properly matched to the use case and storage pool type(s) to be deployed.

Solution Design & Sizing Guide

  • Covers general QuantaStor SDS solution engineering and design guidelines

Hardware Compatibility List / Recommended Hardware

  • List of tested and recommended hardware

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.
    • Preparing USB/ISO Installation Media
      • Documentation on creating a bootable QuantaStor Installer on a USB thumb-drive for bare-metal install
    • Upgrade Guide
      • The Upgrade Guide outlines how to upgrade your QuantaStor system or virtual appliance to the latest version.

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 QuantaStor appliances and storage system grids.

Advanced Administration Guides

Remote-replication / Disaster Recovery Administrators Guide
Clustered HA SAN/NAS with JBOD back-end
Clustered HA SAN/NAS with iSCSI/FC SAN back-end
Scale-out NAS Administrators Guide (GlusterFS-based)
Scale-out SAN Administrators Guide (Ceph-based)
Scale-out Object Administrators Guide (Ceph-based)

Web Admin Guide

  • The Web Admin Guide provides detail for the dialogues available in the WebUI.

Users Guide and Host-side Configuration

  • The User's Guide focuses on host side configuration steps, such as multipath configuration and iSCSI initiator configuration.

Advanced Topics

SNMP Agent Setup

  • Detailed instructions on how to setup the SNMP agent to send SNMP traps.

Command Line Interface (CLI) 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 REST API calls from your own applications.

Customizing Appliance Internals

  • Details on how to write custom scripts to augment various operations like system started/shutdown, storage pool start/stop, etc.

IO Performance Tuning

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

Troubleshooting Guide

  • Various troubleshooting topics ranging from login issues to driver upgrades.

Driver Upgrade Guide

  • Instructions on how to build new device drivers for newly released hardware

Custom Unmanaged NFS/CIFS Shares

  • Instructions on how to create custom entries for SMB/NFS access which are ignored by QuantaStor

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

  • Guide outlines how to block NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and other protocol access in order to further lock down an appliance.

Security Updates

  • How to apply security patches and get detail on what patches apply to QuantaStor

IPSec

  • IPsec can be used to encrypt traffic for NFS and other protocols

Application Integration

CopperEgg Integration

  • Provides cloud monitoring and near real-time system stats

PagerDuty Integration

  • Use PagerDuty to get notified of call-home appliance alerts to your IT team with an advanced ticketing system.

Librato Metrics Integration

  • Use Librato to collect and view a dashboard metrics on utilization and other stats from your QuantaStor appliances.

Cloudera™ Hadoop Integration Guide

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

Nagios Integration

  • Monitoring and metrics platform integration, more information available here.

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 enterprise cloud file storage solution on QuantaStor. Solution is similar to Dropbox.

OpenStack Cinder

  • Documentation on setting up OpenStack Cinder to use the QuantaStor Cinder Driver.

Zabbix Integration

  • Monitoring via the Zabbix platform, more information available here.

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.

End User License Agreement (EULA)

  • Contains the EULA, and support terms agreement.

Product Release Change Log and Security Updates

Change Log

  • Details of what features and fixes are included with each QuantaStor release

Security Updates

  • Details of what Linux security updates impact QuantaStor and how to update your appliance

Product Version End-of-life Notifications

  • Details on product version end-of-life dates and notifications