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Leveraging SMB3 Multi-Channel with QuantaStor
Overview Network Engineers have an old saying: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes. …but what about two trucks? Two trucks give you double the bandwidth. If one breaks down you’re still in business. If two trucks don’t provide enough performance or reliability, you can add a… Listen ⇢
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Starfish Storage with QuantaStor
Overview Managing unstructured data at scale is a growing challenge, but Starfish Storage offers a modern solution built to meet that need. Starfish provides deep visibility into file systems—both current and historical—while orchestrating the entire data lifecycle from discovery to migration across file and object storage. It enables enriched metadata… Listen ⇢
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CrowdStrike with QuantaStor
Protecting QuantaStor from network threats can be an important part of your security posture. In this article I’ll detail how to install the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor (agent) on a QuantaStor instance. Listen ⇢
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Using QuantaStor with OpenStack Cinder
Overview Many organizations have chosen OpenStack as the platform for their cloud deployment. OpenStack is composed of a couple dozen independent project components (nova, keystone, cinder, etc) that work together to provide a robust and versatile cloud platform. The OpenStack component that provides block storage to the platform is the… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor Log Aggregation with Fluentd
Overview Many organizations use analysis and management technologies to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and monitoring of platforms and applications that span multiple nodes/VMs/containers/devices. To accomplish this, the first step is to aggregate the required logs. Log aggregation is the process of collecting, centralizing, and organizing log data from multiple sources into a… Listen ⇢
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Using QuantaStor Scale-out File, Block and Object Storage with Proxmox
Overview Many organizations are currently re-evaluating their options when it comes to the virtualization platform they standardize on as Broadcom has been making changes to the VMware licensing options. We’ve seen that many organizations are now making Proxmox their platform of choice given its more flexible licensing options. In this… Listen ⇢
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Using QuantaStor Scale-out File Storage with Kubernetes via Ceph-CSI
Overview Kubernetes with Ceph as the storage back-end is one of the most popular ways to deploy storage for Kubernetes but there are not many resources out there that really show how to deploy that from start to finish. Beyond that, setting up and maintaining a Ceph cluster requires more… Listen ⇢
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Nextcloud Install Using QuantaStor Scale-out Object Storage Backend
Overview Nextcloud is… “… the most popular on-premises content collaboration platform you can download. It scales from a Raspberry Pi with 2 users to globally distributed installations with tens of millions of users at major hosting providers.” Or, “… an open-source, self-hosted cloud storage solution that provides users with control… Listen ⇢
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Transforming Tape to Object Storage with PoINT & QuantaStor
Tape has been a stalwart and cost effective means of backing up and archiving data for generations. But in recent years tape has started to give way to cloud based object storage solutions that are easier to interface with and recover data from using S3 and other object storage protocols.… Listen ⇢
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