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QuantaStor is a universal SAN/NAS (iSCSI/FC/NFS/CIFS) Software Defined Storage Platform for use with commodity 64bit server hardware.   
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QuantaStor is a unified file, block and object Software Defined Storage platform (iSCSI/FC/NVMeoF/NFS/CIFS/S3) 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.
  
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QuantaStor was designed with advanced grid scale-out management technology so you can deploy appliances anywhere and manage them as a single unit.  We've engineered out much of the complexity that storage system manufacturers commonly burden administrators with by following the famous adage [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."].  Much of this increased management efficiency and ease of use is readily understood once you begin using QuantaStor's web management interface via your favorite [http://www.osnexus.com/qs-screens/ web browser]. 
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== How is it unique from other SDS and storage systems? ==
  
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== 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
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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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* Scale-up and Scale-out
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** QuantaStor enables one to create and manage within the platform both highly available scale-up pools (OpenZFS based) and scale-out pools (Ceph based) so that the best storage architecture can be selected to meet the performance, feature, and cost efficiency goals of each workload.
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* Hardware Integration
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** QuantaStor has the broadest and deepest hardware integration of any SDS platform on the market.  This enables organizations to leverage SDS without sacrificing the hardware monitoring and management features common to traditional SAN/NAS solutions that are critical to efficient maintenance.
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* Security Focus
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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 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.
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* Ease of Use
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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.
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* Open Storage Foundation
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** QuantaStor integrates with open storage technologies (Ceph, OpenZFS) so that organizations are not locked into a proprietary filesystem.  This reduces lifecycle risk and ensures long term filesystem innovation.  OSNEXUS contributes to and supports OSS development.
  
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QuantaStor has a number of powerful features like thin-provisioning, compression, and massive snapshot scalability that you'll find on other enterprise level storage systems, but what makes it truly unique about QuantaStor is its multi-tenancy capabilities through what we call '''storage clouds''' and our scale-out management technology QuantaGrid.
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== How is it sold? ==
  
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QuantaStor v2 was limited to XFS as a storage pool type, but in QuantaStor v3 we've re-introduced support for BTRFS and are introducing support for ZFS in QuantaStor v3.6 in June 2013.
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QuantaStor is sold through a network of [https://www.osnexus.com/reseller-partners OSNEXUS Partner Resellers].  
  
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QuantaStor is also multi-tenant. Via Storage Clouds you gain the ability to allocate resources to groups of users so they can can securely self-service provision network shares and storage volumes. Rather than having to purchase new hardware for a new project or team, with QuantaGrid plus multi-tenancy you can add more resources to the grid and securely share them among multiple customers.  Storage cloud users and cloud administrators simply login to the system they can only view and manage resources within their assigned Storage Cloud(s) and all other resources are protected, invisible, and secured away.
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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].
  
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QuantaStor also has one of the most advanced web 2.0 management interfaces on the market which we call QuantaStor Manager.  With QuantaStor Manager there is no software to install, you just point your web browser at the storage system and you'll be presented with the login dialog nearly instantly.  With QuantaGrid you're able to link multiple systems together that can be a mix of local and remote systems into a grid so you can manage it all via QuantaStor Manager by logging into any node in the grid.
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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.
  
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== How is it sold? ==
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=== Subscription Levels ===
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QuantaStor licenses are available with a few different subscription levels including:
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* Enterprise Edition with Platinum Support
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** 24/7 Support with maximum 1hr response time
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** All features included
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* Enterprise Edition with Gold Support
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** 24/7 Support with maximum 4hr response time
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** All features included
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* Enterprise Edition with Silver Support
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** Weekday support (Monday - Friday) with maximum NBD response time
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** All features included
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=== Expanding Capacity ===
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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.
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== Support ==
  
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QuantaStor is sold through a network of partner resellers, distributors and [http://shop.osnexus.com online as software].  We also support the efforts of the open source community and small business with our [http://www.osnexus.com/trynow-iso Free/Community Edition] which supports up to 4TB of disk.  
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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.
  
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QuantaStor software licenses come in two forms.  Perpetual Licenses which never expire and Annual Subscription Licenses which are lower cost but require renewal for 2 years after the initial subscription starts.  Annual Subscription Licenses are automatically issued as perpetual licenses that never expire after the 2nd year renewal.  For recommend hardware for use with your QuantaStor system please see our [http://www.osnexus.com/recommended-configurations/ recommended hardware page].
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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.
  
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For pre-packaged hardware solutions like our QuantaStor E Series or A Series please see our [http://www.osnexus.com/resellers/ Partner Reseller] page for a reseller near you.  All hardware solutions come with perpetual licenses which never expire.
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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.
  
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== Secure & Customizable ==
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== Community Edition ==
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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 (raw) per system. QuantaStor Community Edition keys are not feature limited and allow for scale-out clusters to be deployed with up to 4x systems comprising 160TB of raw storage capacity.
  
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QuantaStor is built on top of Ubuntu Server as it's core OS and this gives you the power to customize QuantaStor in unique ways that are not possible with other storage systems.  Though you do not need to ever login to the system console except at initial installation and for some upgrades, the use of Ubuntu Linux underneath allows us to leverage the powerful tools and a security envelope that comes with the Ubuntu platform that simplifies upgrades and maintenance of the system saving you time and energy.
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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]

Latest revision as of 12:57, 7 February 2024

QuantaStor is a unified file, block and object Software Defined Storage platform (iSCSI/FC/NVMeoF/NFS/CIFS/S3) 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.
  • Scale-up and Scale-out
    • QuantaStor enables one to create and manage within the platform both highly available scale-up pools (OpenZFS based) and scale-out pools (Ceph based) so that the best storage architecture can be selected to meet the performance, feature, and cost efficiency goals of each workload.
  • Hardware Integration
    • QuantaStor has the broadest and deepest hardware integration of any SDS platform on the market. This enables organizations to leverage SDS without sacrificing the hardware monitoring and management features common to traditional SAN/NAS solutions that are critical to efficient maintenance.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Open Storage Foundation
    • QuantaStor integrates with open storage technologies (Ceph, OpenZFS) so that organizations are not locked into a proprietary filesystem. This reduces lifecycle risk and ensures long term filesystem innovation. OSNEXUS contributes to and supports OSS development.

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
    • Weekday support (Monday - Friday) 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 (raw) per system. QuantaStor Community Edition keys are not feature limited and allow for scale-out clusters to be deployed with up to 4x systems comprising 160TB of raw storage capacity.

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

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