In Part Two of this blog series we’re getting into the fun part of writing a simple Lua script to start automatically tiering (organizing) S3 objects into the right pools by dynamically changing the Storage Class setting on the fly… Read More ›
Storage Appliance Hardware
Articles on RAID controller hardware, SSDs, servers, etc
Auto-tiering Ceph Object Storage – Part One
S3-compatible object storage systems generally have the ability to store objects into different tiers with different characteristics so you can get the best combination of cost and performance to match the needs of any given application workload. Storage tiers are… Read More ›
Increasing Storage Security with 2-Factor-Authentication
There are many things you can do to make your QuantaStor storage system more secure (strong passwords, snapshots, etc.) but one of the easiest things you can do is to enable two-factor-authentication (2FA) that was added in QuantaStor 6.2. QuantaStor… Read More ›
The Problem With Jumbo Frames
The humble Ethernet frame, the packet, is sent and received across your network and across the internet in chunks, “frames”, “packets”, each containing just 1500 bytes by default. You’ll see this set in your network interface settings as the MTU… Read More ›
Remote Replication Schedules (Disaster Recovery Failover)
Remote replication schedules provide a mechanism for automatic replication of changes to volumes & shares to destination Storage Pool. On the destination Storage Pool the copied volumes and shares are referred to as checkpoints and are easily identified by their… Read More ›
Seagate Lyve Cloud + OSNexus QuantaStor
Seagate Lyve Cloud provides a simple and efficient S3 compatible object storage solution for mass data. With QuantaStor, you can enable a NAS Gateway to Seagate Lyve Cloud and it supports both SMB and NSF – with no added QuantaStor… Read More ›
Simplifying Media & Entertainment Workflows with Resilio and QuantaStor
Workflows in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry are all about collaboration. With globally distributed teams of artists, editors, producers, and developers it can be difficult to keep teams and data in sync. Offices and data centers used by M&E… Read More ›
E-mail vs ITSM, Ensuring Timely Maintenance of Critical Storage Systems
Storage systems are a critical component of IT infrastructure that need to be online 24/7/365 without interruption. This is accomplished through high-availability technologies and end-to-end hardware redundancies so that there is no single point of failure that could lead to downtime…. Read More ›
QuantaStor v5.11.2 Now Available with Expanded Hardware Support and Streamlined Deployment of Scale-out NAS & S3 Object Storage
QuantaStor starts the New Year with a maintenance upgrade release with expanded hardware support, expanded RHEL platform support, and a number of new features that further accelerates and simplifies the deployment of scale-out storage clusters. Expanded Hardware Support With VARs… Read More ›
KMIP and Self-Encrypting Drive Support in QuantaStor 5.11
The latest version of QuantaStor introduces support for two important security features: KMIP and hardware encryption via SED media. Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) is an extensible communication protocol for managing security keys that has been developed and standardized by… Read More ›