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The Future of High Availability in Software Defined Storage: Ceph and GlusterFS
Of any feature storage administrators could claim to be the most important of a SDS solution, it would arguably be High Availability (HA). To date, High Availability has been a challenge for many Software Defined Storage solutions because the traditional mechanism for High Availability failover requires the use of special… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor 3.13 now available featuring enhanced encryption management and one-step GlusterFS peering
The team at OSNEXUS has been hard at work this summer on the latest release of QuantaStor and today I’m happy to announce that QuantaStor 3.13 is now generally available with new encryption features, one-step GlusterFS peering and inclusion of the latest maintenance releases of ZFS (v.6.3) and GlusterFS (v3.5.2).… Listen ⇢
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Redapt – A Great New Partner
We continue to grow from strength to strength at OSNEXUS. With the announcement of our advanced high availability features we continue to attract top tier resellers and integrators. Today we announced a North American reseller distribution agreement with Redapt, Dell’s leading large value added reseller partner. The team at Redapt… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor Updates
We have been so busy adding new features to QuanatStor that we have not had time to share all the great stuff that has gone in already in 2014. If you have not had a chance to check out our new HA capability in QuantaStor V3.9 I highly recommend looking… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor HA Technology
The OSNEXUS team added high-availability capability to QuantaStor V3.9. Take a look at Steve’s video to see how easy it is to setup and configure a HA environment. Listen ⇢
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Defining Software Defined Storage (SDS), what it is, and isn’t.
UPDATE 11/28/2017 Over the last 4 years we’ve seen strong adoption of SDS with a growth rate over 100% YoY at OSNEXUS. Today we see our storage grid technology in QuantaStor being a key differentiator for customers with hyper-scale deployments, rack-scale deployments and multi-site deployments. Things have changed alot on… Listen ⇢
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Integrating ZFS
UPDATE 11/28/2017 Since I wrote this article years ago many things have changed so here’s a quick update. Today 90% of our deployments are ZFS based and we only use XFS within our Ceph deployments for OSDs. Even that use of XFS will be phased out in 2018 with the… Listen ⇢
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Btrfs & ZFS, the good, the bad, and some differences.
UPDATE 11/28/2017 It’s been 5 years since I wrote this article and a refresh is due. In short, at OSNEXUS we’re no closer to adoption of BTRFS and in the intervening years we’ve put our efforts into making ZFS on Linux better as it started strong and has only gotten… Listen ⇢
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Understanding FC (and FCoE) fabric configuration in 5 minutes or less.
Forget what you’ve heard, it isn’t that hard. Assuming you’re setting up a basic fibre channel SAN for VMware or a cluster filesystem like Apple’s Xsan the process is pretty straight-forward. For detail on FCoE there’s a great paper on it from Brocade available here but the basics of configuring… Listen ⇢
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