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 ›
GlusterFS
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›