Scale-out Unified Storage for IBM Cloud
OSNEXUS QuantaStor is available on IBM Cloud bare-metal storage servers at all IBM Cloud datacenters worldwide. Use your IBM Cloud bare-metal “IBM Cloud Classic” provisioning portal to provision Ubuntu 22.04 servers then contact OSNexus support at support@osnexus.com for assistance with upgrading your servers to QuantaStor appliances.
Solution Design Assistance
The following design tools help customers, partners, and system architects build optimal hardware configurations for the two primary QuantaStor configuration types. We recommend getting assistance with the design and setup process as there are many factors to consider when estimating performance and selecting the right configuration for a given workload. Please contact us at sdr@osnexus.com (Solution Design Review) to get assistance from our Solution Engineering team.
QuantaStor Scale-up NAS/SAN Storage Systems for IBM Cloud
QuantaStor’s scale-up storage server configurations provide file (NFS/SMB) and block (iSCSI) storage that’s ideal for a variety of use cases. Hybrid configurations use a combination of HDDs and SSDs to provide fast, reliable, cost efficient storage for a variety of use cases including server virtualization, data analytics, backup storage, databases/OLTP, and more. Configurations scale from 4TB to 360TB of raw storage. QuantaStor has AD integration, 2FA, MFA, KMIP, FIPS 140-2 L1 cert, LDAP Single-Sign-On and many other security features. Other commonly used features are remote-replication for replicating across IBM datacenters and on-prem as well as QuantaStor’s NAS Gateway and NAS Auto-tiering to IBM COS.
QuantaStor Scale-out NAS/SAN/S3 Storage Clusters for IBM Cloud
QuantaStor scale-out storage clusters provide unified and highly-available NAS (NFS/SMB), SAN(iSCSI) and S3 compatible object storage all within a single storage cluster. These solutions are ideal for IBM Cloud as they enable easy storage expansion by adding media or additional server, easy replacement of systems by shrinking the cluster to remove legacy hardware, and supports the use of multiple generations of IBM servers within the same storage cluster. We recommend erasure-coding (4k+2m or 8k+3m) for NAS and S3 object configurations and triple replica for iSCSI block storage configurations.