OSNexus Announces QuantaStor 6 with Seagate AP Server Integration

by Lauren Grob

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the recent release of QuantaStor 6.0 delivering the latest in software-defined technology and support.

QuantaStor 6.0 is now available to all new and existing customers with active software subscriptions and brings numerous performance optimizations, new features, and support for the latest server platforms from Supermicro & Seagate.

“QuantaStor 6 brings over 150 product improvements, making it one of our most comprehensive releases to date,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. “Customers and VAR partners have been really pleased with the many improvements in performance, usability, and hardware coverage that version 6 brings.”

Product Release Highlights

Seagate AP Server Support - QuantaStor now integrates with the full line of Seagate AP storage servers based on AMD processors (Bonneville series) including the Seagate 5U84 AP, Seagate 2U24 AP, and Seagate 2U12 AP.

Expanded Hardware Coverage - Platform upgrades QuantaStor to a 5.15 Linux kernel, bringing support for all of the latest server platforms, network and storage hardware.

Upgrade Management Improvements - QuantaStor 6 now fully automates rolling upgrades of both scale-up and scale-out cluster configurations to improve operational efficiency.

Scale-up Cluster Improvements - Adds integration with the latest version of OpenZFS 2.x which brings support for meta-data offload, ZSTD compression, granular Network Share level encryption and more.

Scale-out Cluster Improvements - Adds many improvements for multi-tenant object storage and expanded support for scale-out block storage including EC based block storage pools.

32Gb Fibre Channel Support - QuantaStor’s FC target support has been expanded to include the latest generation of 32Gb FC HBAs from Qlogic and their OEM branded variants from Supermicro and other hardware vendors.

Server Scalability Optimizations - Adds major server and WUI side scalability optimizations to support extremely large Storage Grids and Storage Pools.

QuantaStor 6 is available now. To try QuantaStor for free today, visit osnexus.com/freetrial to get the platform software and license keys.