OSNEXUS is a major sponsor of open storage and gives back to the community with the free Community Edition of QuantaStor SDS. With QuantaStor v4.6 we’ve expanded the Community Edition offering to enable users to build QuantaStor Storage Grids with… Read More ›
GlusterFS
OSNEXUS Releases QuantaStor SDS v4 Hyperscale File, Block and Object Software Defined Storage for the Enterprise
With the release of QuantaStor v4, OSNEXUS has hit a major milestone by enabling organizations to turn commodity hardware into global hyperscale storage grids with support for file, block and object storage. It’s our largest step forward in the evolution… Read More ›
Configuring High Availability SDS Site Clusters
With QuantaStor’s expanded High Availability (HA) capabilities in version 3.15 you can now create and monitor site clusters and group node pairs together all from within the web user interface. Site Clusters enable up to 32 nodes to pool resources… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Deploying a High Availability Storage Cluster with GlusterFS
During the Paris OpenStack Summit earlier this month, Red Hat announced the latest version of GlusterFS, version 3.6.0, with new features including volume snapshots, erasure coding across GlusterFS volumes, improved SSL support, and rewritten automatic file replication code for improved… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›