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QuantaStor is a unified SAN/NAS Software Defined Storage platform (iSCSI/FC/NFS/CIFS/Gluster/Hadoop) designed from the ground up to scale-out and make storage management easyBuilt on top of Linux Ubuntu, QuantaStor installs on all commodity 64bit servers, converting bare-metal hardware into full-featured enterprise storage appliances that perform a wide range of storage management tasks with minimum effort and maximum versatility and reliability.
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QuantaStor is a unified file, block and object Software Defined Storage platform (iSCSI/FC/NFS/CIFS/S3/SWIFT) with grid technology that enables one to combine QuantaStor servers together within and across sites into a "Storage Grid".  QuantaStor is a Linux based operating system and has been certified for use with all major servers including those from Cisco, DellEMC, HPE, Intel, Lenovo, Supermicro, and Western Digital.  Once QuantaStor is bare-metal installed on a server, it may be combined with other QuantaStor servers to form a storage grid.  Storage grids may scale to in excess of 100PB of storage and over 64 storage systems.
  
QuantaStor was designed uniquely with advanced grid scale-out management technology ("QuantaGrid") to enable the deployment of multiple appliances that can be managed from any location as a single unit.  By following the famous adage [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."], we've engineered out the complexity that historically has burdened storage administrators of traditional storage solutions.  Much of this increased management efficiency and ease of use becomes readily apparent the moment you begin using QuantaStor's web management interface via your favorite [http://www.osnexus.com/screenshots/ web browser]. 
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== How is it unique from other SDS and storage systems? ==
  
== How is it unique from other SANs? ==
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QuantaStor is unique in a number of ways, specifically:
 
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* Storage Grid Management Technology
QuantaStor has powerful features including remote-replication, thin-provisioning, compression, high-availability, snapshots and SSD caching. What makes QuantaStor unique from other SDS platforms are the QuantaGrid scale-out management technology, multi-tenancy, and the focus on delivering a multi-protocol and extensible platform. QuantaStor is Linux based and integrates with the best of enterprise-grade open storage technologies on like ZFS, XFS, GlusterFS, Samba, NFS, and SCSTQuantaStor does the heavy lifting to elevate these enterprise technologies into a comprehensive SDS platform which delivers the power of open storage without the complexity.
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** Enables companies to start small and grow hybrid-cloud environments to hyper-scale with ease.  Grids can contain a heterogeneous mix of hardware from different vendors and may include QuantaStor Virtual Storage Systems.
 
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* Ease of Use
== QuantaGrid Technology ==
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** Strong focus on user experience which makes the QuantaStor web management interface easily understood and effective for IT generalists.  OSNEXUS was founded by former EMC, Brocade, and Veritas Software engineers with a focus on eliminating the complexity found in traditional SAN/NAS systems.
Expanding capacity does not mean having to increase complexity.  With QuantaGrid, you can link a mix of local and remote appliances into a grid and, through the HTML5 QuantaStor Manager user interface, manage the combined pool(s) of storage from any single node in the systemQuantaGrid scales up to 32 nodes and 64PB, capably handling Big Data sets, and facilitates advanced features such as Remote Replication / Disaster Recovery and Gluster Scale-Out NAS.
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* Supports Open Standards
 
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** QuantaStor integrates with open storage technologies (Ceph, ZFS)OSNEXUS contributes to an supports OSS development and views the open filesystems as more reliable and better supported for the long term than proprietary alternatives which create data life-cycle risks for users.
== Multi-tenancy ==
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* Security Focus
QuantaStor gives you the ability to allocate resources to groups of users, so they can can securely self-provision network shares and storage volumes.  In addition, our multi-tenancy capabilities allow you to add incremental resources securely to your grid without having to purchase new hardware for a new project or team. Storage cloud users and cloud administrators can log in to a system only they can view, and manage only those resources within their assigned storage cloud(s), while all other resources are protected, invisible, and secured away.
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** QuantaStor is compliant to NIST 800-53, HIPAA, and CJIS standards and FIPS-140-2 Level 1 certified edition will be available in 2019QuantaStor has an advanced Role-Based-Access-Control system and multi-tenancy features which provide further control and ability for organizations to delegate specific limited management access to IT administrators and users.
  
 
== How is it sold? ==
 
== How is it sold? ==
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QuantaStor is sold through a network of [http://www.osnexus.com/find-a-partner OSNEXUS Partner Resellers].  
 
QuantaStor is sold through a network of [http://www.osnexus.com/find-a-partner OSNEXUS Partner Resellers].  
  
QuantaStor is available for 30-day evaluation with a full-featured, 128TB storage capacity [http://www.osnexus.com/freetrial Trial Edition] license key. During your evaluation of QuantaStor, please feel free to contact the OSNEXUS Sales team at [mailto:sales@osnexus.com sales@osnexus.com], regarding specific questions, solution design assistance [mailto:sdr@osnexus.com sdr@osnexus.com] or to schedule a consultation.
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QuantaStor is available for 30-day evaluation with a full-featured, 256TB storage capacity [http://www.osnexus.com/freetrial Trial Edition] license key. During your evaluation of QuantaStor, please feel free to contact the OSNEXUS Sales team at [mailto:sales@osnexus.com sales@osnexus.com] to get additional assistance with your deployment.  Solution design assistance is available from our Solution Engineering team at [mailto:sdr@osnexus.com sdr@osnexus.com] and our design tools are available online at [http://www.osnexus.com/design Solution Design Tools].
  
All paid-for QuantaStor software subscription licenses are inclusive of support, maintenance packs and product upgrades.  Subscription Licenses are available in 1, 3, and 5 year duration with discounts to longer duration keys. Subscriptions of 3 or more years are issued as ''non-expiring'' but an active subscription is required for support, maintenance and product upgrades.  All subscriptions are priced based on raw capacity in terabytes (TB) used for data storage and subscription level.
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All paid-for QuantaStor software subscription licenses are inclusive of support, maintenance packs and product upgrades.  Subscription Licenses are available in 1, 3, and 5 year duration with discounts to longer duration keys. Subscriptions of 3 or more years are issued as ''non-expiring''.  An active subscription is required for support, maintenance and product upgrades.  All subscriptions are priced based on the sum of the raw capacity in terabytes (TB) across all systems in a given storage grid.
  
 
=== Subscription Levels ===
 
=== Subscription Levels ===
 
 
QuantaStor licenses are available with a few different subscription levels including:
 
QuantaStor licenses are available with a few different subscription levels including:
 
* Enterprise Edition with Platinum Support  
 
* Enterprise Edition with Platinum Support  
** 24/7 Support with maximum 1hr response
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** 24/7 Support with maximum 1hr response time
** All features unlocked
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** All features included
 
* Enterprise Edition with Gold Support
 
* Enterprise Edition with Gold Support
** 24/7 Support with maximum 4hr response
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** 24/7 Support with maximum 4hr response time
** All features unlocked
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** All features included
* Standard Edition with Silver Support  
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* Enterprise Edition with Silver Support  
** 9/5 Support (M-F, 9am-6pm PT)
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** 9/5 Support (M-F, 9am-6pm PT) with maximum NBD response time
** Grid is limited to 4 appliances with some feature limits
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** All features included
** Excludes: Scale-out File/Block, FC, Infiniband
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=== Expanding Capacity ===
 
=== Expanding Capacity ===
Appliances can be expanded at any time with additional capacity through expansion subscription licenses.  These are pro-rated and are set to expire on the date of expiration for the base subscription license so that the next subscription renewal can roll up the total capacity into a new base subscription license.
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Systems may be expanded at any time with additional capacity through expansion subscription licenses.  These are pro-rated and are set to expire on the date of expiration for the base subscription license so that the next subscription renewal can roll up the total capacity into a new base subscription license.  Expansions are discounted based on the current capacity of the existing storage grid being expanded.
  
=== Support ===
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== Support ==
  
Further information on the Support Levels is available in the [https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www.osnexus.com/osn_support_levels.pdf Support Levels] document.
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Further information on the Support Levels is available in the [https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www.osnexus.com/osn_support_guidelines_2018-Sep-01.pdf Support Levels] document.
  
Our network of OSNEXUS Partner Resellers are certified experts at integrating QuantaStor into custom hardware solutions and delivering turn-key appliances built to your specifications.  For more information on pre-packaged hardware solutions, please see our [http://www.osnexus.com/find-a-partner Partner Reseller] page for a reseller near you.
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Our network of OSNEXUS Partner Resellers are certified experts at integrating QuantaStor into custom hardware solutions and delivering turn-key systems built to your specifications.  For more information on pre-packaged hardware solutions, please see our [http://www.osnexus.com/find-a-partner Partner Reseller] page for a reseller near you.
  
 
Customers seeking to build a QuantaStor system for their own use are advised to build from list of certified components on our Hardware Compatibility List.  Please refer to our HCL [[Recommended_Hardware | recommended hardware page]] for more details.
 
Customers seeking to build a QuantaStor system for their own use are advised to build from list of certified components on our Hardware Compatibility List.  Please refer to our HCL [[Recommended_Hardware | recommended hardware page]] for more details.
  
== Secure & Customizable ==
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== Community Edition ==
Although you will almost never need to log in to the system console, QuantaStor's underlying use of Ubuntu Linux integrates the powerful tools and security envelope that come with the Ubuntu platform, simplifying upgrades and system maintenance, and saving you time and energyFurthermore, by using Ubuntu Server as our core OS, you have the ability to customize your QuantaStor appliance in ways that are not possible with other storage systems.
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In an effort to support the interests of the open source community with our [http://www.osnexus.com/freetrial Free/Community Edition] with a licensed storage capacity of 40TB (total raw storage assigned to pool(s)). QuantaStor Community Edition keys are feature limited and capacity limited to 40TB, and we allow 3x licenses to deploy a scale-out (Ceph) cluster. In that case 120TB raw.
 
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=== Community Edition ===
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We also support the interests of the open source community with our [http://www.osnexus.com/freetrial Free/Community Edition] with a licensed storage capacity of 10TB (raw data disk size, not including hot spares or boot drives).
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== Trial Edition ==
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QuantaStor is available for download and use with a 30-day Trial Edition license key or with our free renewable Community Edition license key. QuantaStor Trial Edition keys have all Enterprise Edition features unlocked but are limited to 256TB of raw capacity and 30 days.<br>
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[http://www.osnexus.com/downloads Free/Community Edition]

Revision as of 13:48, 18 September 2019

QuantaStor is a unified file, block and object Software Defined Storage platform (iSCSI/FC/NFS/CIFS/S3/SWIFT) with grid technology that enables one to combine QuantaStor servers together within and across sites into a "Storage Grid". QuantaStor is a Linux based operating system and has been certified for use with all major servers including those from Cisco, DellEMC, HPE, Intel, Lenovo, Supermicro, and Western Digital. Once QuantaStor is bare-metal installed on a server, it may be combined with other QuantaStor servers to form a storage grid. Storage grids may scale to in excess of 100PB of storage and over 64 storage systems.

How is it unique from other SDS and storage systems?

QuantaStor is unique in a number of ways, specifically:

  • Storage Grid Management Technology
    • Enables companies to start small and grow hybrid-cloud environments to hyper-scale with ease. Grids can contain a heterogeneous mix of hardware from different vendors and may include QuantaStor Virtual Storage Systems.
  • Ease of Use
    • Strong focus on user experience which makes the QuantaStor web management interface easily understood and effective for IT generalists. OSNEXUS was founded by former EMC, Brocade, and Veritas Software engineers with a focus on eliminating the complexity found in traditional SAN/NAS systems.
  • Supports Open Standards
    • QuantaStor integrates with open storage technologies (Ceph, ZFS). OSNEXUS contributes to an supports OSS development and views the open filesystems as more reliable and better supported for the long term than proprietary alternatives which create data life-cycle risks for users.
  • Security Focus
    • QuantaStor is compliant to NIST 800-53, HIPAA, and CJIS standards and FIPS-140-2 Level 1 certified edition will be available in 2019. QuantaStor has an advanced Role-Based-Access-Control system and multi-tenancy features which provide further control and ability for organizations to delegate specific limited management access to IT administrators and users.

How is it sold?

QuantaStor is sold through a network of OSNEXUS Partner Resellers.

QuantaStor is available for 30-day evaluation with a full-featured, 256TB storage capacity Trial Edition license key. During your evaluation of QuantaStor, please feel free to contact the OSNEXUS Sales team at sales@osnexus.com to get additional assistance with your deployment. Solution design assistance is available from our Solution Engineering team at sdr@osnexus.com and our design tools are available online at Solution Design Tools.

All paid-for QuantaStor software subscription licenses are inclusive of support, maintenance packs and product upgrades. Subscription Licenses are available in 1, 3, and 5 year duration with discounts to longer duration keys. Subscriptions of 3 or more years are issued as non-expiring. An active subscription is required for support, maintenance and product upgrades. All subscriptions are priced based on the sum of the raw capacity in terabytes (TB) across all systems in a given storage grid.

Subscription Levels

QuantaStor licenses are available with a few different subscription levels including:

  • Enterprise Edition with Platinum Support
    • 24/7 Support with maximum 1hr response time
    • All features included
  • Enterprise Edition with Gold Support
    • 24/7 Support with maximum 4hr response time
    • All features included
  • Enterprise Edition with Silver Support
    • 9/5 Support (M-F, 9am-6pm PT) with maximum NBD response time
    • All features included

Expanding Capacity

Systems may be expanded at any time with additional capacity through expansion subscription licenses. These are pro-rated and are set to expire on the date of expiration for the base subscription license so that the next subscription renewal can roll up the total capacity into a new base subscription license. Expansions are discounted based on the current capacity of the existing storage grid being expanded.

Support

Further information on the Support Levels is available in the Support Levels document.

Our network of OSNEXUS Partner Resellers are certified experts at integrating QuantaStor into custom hardware solutions and delivering turn-key systems built to your specifications. For more information on pre-packaged hardware solutions, please see our Partner Reseller page for a reseller near you.

Customers seeking to build a QuantaStor system for their own use are advised to build from list of certified components on our Hardware Compatibility List. Please refer to our HCL recommended hardware page for more details.

Community Edition

In an effort to support the interests of the open source community with our Free/Community Edition with a licensed storage capacity of 40TB (total raw storage assigned to pool(s)). QuantaStor Community Edition keys are feature limited and capacity limited to 40TB, and we allow 3x licenses to deploy a scale-out (Ceph) cluster. In that case 120TB raw.

Trial Edition

QuantaStor is available for download and use with a 30-day Trial Edition license key or with our free renewable Community Edition license key. QuantaStor Trial Edition keys have all Enterprise Edition features unlocked but are limited to 256TB of raw capacity and 30 days.
Free/Community Edition