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Creating iSCSI Datastores in VMware with QuantaStor SDS
Server and Desktop virtualization with VMware is one of the most popular storage use cases for QuantaStor SDS. QuantaStor, certified for use with VMware ESXi, makes it easy to access iSCSI targets using the software iSCSI adapter built into VMware. The great thing about using iSCSI is that it’s fast, supports… Listen ⇢
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Assigning Network Share Ownership Using Active Directory
Creating Network Attached Storage (NAS) Shares with Active Directory using QuantaStor has always been an easy process, and now with the latest QuantaStor release we’ve made Active Directory integration even easier by adding new security policies that let storage administrators assign owners to specific group shares with just a few… Listen ⇢
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Configuring SNMP Alert Notifications for QuantaStor Appliances
QuantaStor has always allowed for remote system monitoring using SNMP and now with the release of QuantaStor v3.15 we’ve enhanced the platform’s alerting and notification capabilities as well as security and privacy by including SNMPv3. For those unfamiliar with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), it’s an Internet-standard protocol to monitor… Listen ⇢
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Enabling Strong Storage Security with TLS
Maintaining secure systems is not just an ongoing task but an increasingly important focus and practice for all IT organizations. The key for software vendors is providing timely updates that ensure strong security enforcement and keep up with the constantly changing threat landscape. With the recent activity around SSL and… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor v3.15 Released with High Availability Site Clustering for High-Performance Block and File Storage Grids
We are pleased to announce the latest release of OSNEXUS QuantaStor 3.15, an update that constitutes a major milestone as it includes improvements for HA ZFS storage pools, and performance and scalability enhancements that will greatly speed up all deployments. In addition to its many new features, QuantaStor 3.15 was designed as… Listen ⇢
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Remote Replication and Disaster Recovery with Software Defined Storage
If you haven’t taken the time out to review and identify what parts of your IT infrastructure are housing the critical data, now is the time. You never know when you’re going to need it and verifying that you have a plan in place to get things back up and… Listen ⇢
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Managing Scale-out NAS File Storage with GlusterFS Volumes
QuantaStor provides scale-out NAS capabilities using CIFS/SMB and NFS as well as via the GlusterFS client protocol for scale-out deployments. For those not familiar with GlusterFS, it’s a scale-out filesystem that ties multiple underlying files systems together across appliances to present them in aggregate as a single filesystem or “single-namespace”… Listen ⇢
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Deploying Software Defined Storage with Cloud Containers
Over at The Virtualization Guy blog, Gaston Pantana wrote a great post on how to integrate SoftLayer’s Object Storage with QuantaStor using Cloud Containers. Cloud Containers let you back up storage volumes to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and IBM/SoftLayer Object Storage. The data is compressed, encrypted, and deduplicated and is ideal… Listen ⇢
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Protecting Against Data Loss Using RAID for Post-production Media Storage
If you just watched the above YouTube video about how Toy Story 2 was almost erased out of existence by a mistyped Linux command, then you’re probably paying close attention to why using RAID for media storage is a great idea. In addition to a disaster recovery plan, it’s… Listen ⇢
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