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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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Use Vines to Learn QuantaStor in Seconds
At OSNEXUS we’re always trying to make it easy for our customers and partners to learn the many features that the QuantaStor SDS platform has to offer. We also realize that everyone is very busy and time is a precious commodity. To that end, we’re happy to announce that in… Listen ⇢
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How to: Universal Hot-spare Management for ZFS-based Storage Pools
A standard best practice for preventing data loss due to disk failure is to designate one or more disk spares so that fault-tolerant arrays can auto-heal using the spare in the event of a HDD or SSD drive failure. Universal hot-spare management takes that a step further and lets you… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor v3.14 Released
The latest maintenance release of QuantaStor SDS (v3.14) was published on December 30th, 2014 and comes with several new features. Some highlights include: Cascading replication of volumes and shares allows for replicating data in an unlimited chain-linked fashion from appliance to appliance to appliance. Kernel upgrade to the Linux 3.13 that adds support… Listen ⇢
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