With the broad range of hardware options available to Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions like QuantaStor, selecting the right combination of hardware to make the workload perform well without overspending on higher cost components can be a challenge. If money is… Read More ›
High Availability
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 ›
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…. 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 ›
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… 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 ›
Planning a Disaster Recovery Strategy: Automated Backup Policies for Software Defined Storage
From a business process perspective, a “disaster” needs to encompass everything from application downtime or hardware failures to computer viruses and hackers that cause business disruptions with economic consequences that may be just as impactful as a fire or flood…. Read More ›