What is QuantaStor?

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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 easy. Built 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.

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 "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 web browser.

How is it unique from other SANs?

QuantaStor has powerful features including remote-replication, thin-provisioning, compression, deduplication, 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 SCST. QuantaStor does the heavy lifting to elevate these enterprise technologies into a comprehensive SDS platform which delivers the power of open storage without the complexity.

QuantaGrid Technology

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 system. QuantaGrid 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.

Multi-tenancy

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.

How is it sold?

QuantaStor is sold through a network of OSNEXUS Partner Resellers, distributors and online as software for customers in regions not yet served by our channel resellers. We also support the interests of the open source community with our Free/Community Edition with a licensed storage capacity of 10TB (raw disk size, not including hot spares or boot drives). For those seeking to test QuantaStor for use in their production environments, Trial Edition is a 30-day, full-featured, 128TB license key.

All paid-for QuantaStor software licenses are inclusive of support, maintenance packs and product upgrades. Subscription Licenses are valid for 1 year and are an ideal choice for a business looking to fully expense their annual IT investment. Following the third annual subscription, a licensee will receive a Perpetual Key, which never expires. A Perpetual Key can also be purchased outright for a discount to the 3-year subscription rate, and comes with 3 years of support, maintenance packs and upgrades.

The QuantaStor SDS platform is available in two versions - QuantaStor Standard Edition with Silver Support and QuantaStor Enterprise Edition with Gold Support. Our Standard Edition comes with the full features of QuantaStor, including grids up to four nodes, but not certain specific-use features, plus 9/5 unlimited phone and email support (U.S. Pacific time zone). Our Enterprise Edition includes all of the features of our Standard Edition, and adds Gluster support, FibreChannel and Infiniband support, Remote Replication/DR support and QuantaGrid scale-out management for more than 4 nodes. Gold Support is intended for those production environments where downtime equals lost business and includes 24/7 unlimited phone and email support, with less than 8 hour response on evenings and weekends.

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 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.

Secure & Customizable

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 energy. Furthermore, 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.