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 ›
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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 ›
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 ›
Automatic Disaster Recovery Site Failover with QuantaStor 5
A good disaster recovery (DR) failover plan is essential for all IT organizations large and small to ensure business continuity in the event of power outages, network outages and natural disasters that can impact the availability of systems. QuantaStor software-defined… Read More ›
Static Route Management with QuantaStor
Static routes provide a way of customizing network traffic flow to bypass the default gateway for communication with a specific network. This is especially useful for routing network traffic through specific VLANs to a network that’s not routable by the… Read More ›
Block Device Copy with QuantaStor 5
QuantaStor 5.8 introduces a new block storage copy feature that simplifies copying LUNs (FC/iSCSI/NVMeoF) to and from 3rd party SAN systems. This feature also enables copying LUNs into QuantaStor storage systems as new block devices, files, or objects and even… Read More ›