OSNexus Announces Auto-Configuration of Seagate® Exos® CORVAULT™ Systems

BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 19, 2023 OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage, today announced storage automation capabilities in QuantaStor 6 with Seagate® Exos® CORVAULT™. The new one-click complete auto-configuration of CORVAULT systems enables ultra simple expansion of QuantaStor scale-up and scale-out clusters with Seagate CORVAULT systems.

OSNexus QuantaStor integrates with Seagate Exos CORVAULT enabling scale-up and scale-out cluster configurations deployed with two layers of erasure coding provided by the CORVAULT and a second layer provided by QuantaStor. QuantaStor also monitors CORVAULT systems to provide distributed management and alerting.

Seagate's Exos CORVAULT is a fully configured, self-healing, direct-attached storage array which combines Seagate's highest capacity enterprise disk drives with Seagate's ADAPT and Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) data protection and self-healing technologies. The CORVAULT system presents logical disk groups instead of physical disks to the QuantaStor software and also implements hardware-based erasure coding data protection, which reduces the server CPU resources needed to run QuantaStor by 50% as compared with using JBODs.

QuantaStor uses the CORVAULT's built-in VelosCT™ ASIC-based ADAPT erasure coding to enable faster system performance and simplified maintenance with faster drive rebuilds within each CORVAULT storage array, eliminating east/west network disk rebuild traffic resulting in less backend system pressure. QuantaStor implements a second layer of erasure coding between CORVAULT systems, significantly increasing system data durability up to 14 9's.

"Integration and automation of the Seagate Exos CORVAULT systems provides a unique solution to scaling with two-layers of erasure-coding and this is key to enabling customers to deploy clusters in the 100PB-200PB and beyond as Seagate continues to increase per platter densities," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "With this release we've expanded our Seagate Exos CORVAULT integration by adding easy one-click auto-configuration via pre-set profiles which will greatly accelerate deployment times and provide greater consistency."

QuantaStor's management and auto-configuration of Seagate CORVAULT units covers the entire line from the 4U106 based Corvault to the new 5U84 Corvault that fits within standard rack depth.

For more information, visit osnexus.com/seagate or seagate.com/solutions/osnexus.

OSNexus Announces QuantaStor 6.2 with Veeam SOSAPI Integration, Advanced Load Balancer, and Updated Remote Replication Reporting

BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2023 -- OSNexus, leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the upcoming release of QuantaStor 6.2 with new Veeam SOSAPI integration, advanced load balancer capabilities, and Seagate® Exos® CORVAULT™ auto-configuration features. The release is set for mid-September 2023.

"Integration and automation of the Seagate Exos CORVAULT systems provides a unique solution to scaling with two-layers of erasure-coding and this is key to enabling customers to deploy clusters in the 100PB-200PB and beyond as Seagate continues to increase per platter densities," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "With this release we've expanded our Seagate Exos CORVAULT integration by adding easy one-click auto-configuration via pre-set profiles which will greatly accelerate deployment times and provide greater consistency."

A list of highlights for QuantaStor 6.2 is below:

Seagate® Exos® CORVAULT™ Monitoring & Management - Easy one-click complete auto-configuration of CORVAULT systems enabling ultra simple expansion of QuantaStor scale-up and scale-out clusters with Seagate CORVAULT systems.
Veeam SOSAPI Integration - Optimizes interaction with S3 object storage repositories in Veeam Backup & Replication.
Advanced Load Balancer - New load balancer for RGW / S3 gateway for SigV4 support.
Advanced Remote Replication Reporting - Graphing and greater detail of grid-wide replication activities now easily monitored via periodic reports received via email.
Time-based One-Time Password (2FA) - QuantaStor now supports adding two-factor authentication thereby providing an easy way for IT organizations to further protect their storage grids via TOTP authentication.

OSNexus Announces Integration with Pliops Extreme Data Processor

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage, today announced integration with Pliops XDP-RAIDplus PCIe storage controllers with the release of QuantaStor 6.1.

Pliops XDP-RAIDplus is a best-in-class data protection service for enterprise SSD environments, including NVMe and NVME-oF environments, and overcomes the limitations of conventional RAID controllers while accelerating application performance, enabling higher SSD endurance and usable life, and unlocking capacity.

"We are excited to have Pliops XDP-RAIDplus Data Service support in QuantaStor 6.1," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "The Pliops XDP technology enables us to design and deploy hybrid scale-out solutions using low cost NVMe QLC flash storage with greater capacity, performance, and endurance compared to using the media directly with basic software RAID1."

Along with the use of Pliops in scale-out and scale-up QuantaStor cluster configurations, QuantaStor also makes it possible to present Pliops block devices via standard network block protocols including iSCSI, FC, and NVMe-oF TCP. This enables organizations to make use of Pliops XDP-RAIDplus storage in a broader set of application use cases including with VMs and containers.

OSNexus Accelerates Hybrid-Cloud Adoption with QuantaStor 6.1

OSNexus, leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the recent release of QuantaStor 6.1 that expands the platform’s cloud integration capabilities, hardware integration, and NAS feature sets to help organizations adopt and accelerate their hybrid cloud IT initiatives.

"This release is the first of three feature releases this year and 6.1 focuses on helping our customers advance their hybrid-cloud adoption plans with auto-tiering improvements," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "At the same time we’ve integrated with Seagate CORVAULT and Pliops hardware so that organizations can deploy and manage large scale-out clusters in the 10s of PB at lower cost and with ultra high reliability in excess of 14x 9s of uptime."

A list of highlights for QuantaStor 6.1:

• Advanced Auto-Tiering Capabilities - Storage-class capabilities so that local file storage can be tiered to AWS Glacier and other low cost storage tiers.

• WORM Support - File level immutability (WORM) support to complement the existing immutable snapshot and snapshot hold features.

• Ceph Client Keyring Support - This new feature allows users to create client keyrings associated with specific scale-out block and file storage resources.

• Seagate CORVAULT External System Management Module - Management and monitoring of Seagate CORVAULT systems used within a QuantaStor storage grid.

• Pliops Hardware Support - Pliops XDP RAIDplus PCIe cards are now supported for improved performance and greater endurance of NVMe media.

• Replication Reports - Enables easy tracking of all replication activity via a periodic email summary report.

OSNexus Announces Auto-Tiering to the Cloud with Seagate Lyve Cloud

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage, today announced Auto-Tiering to the cloud for its QuantaStor platform in conjunction with Seagate® Lyve™® Cloud.

Seagate Lyve Cloud provides a simple and efficient S3 compatible object storage solution for mass data storage in the cloud. OSNexus QuantaStor integrates with Seagate Lyve® Cloud to provide additional functionality including NAS Gateway (NFS & SMB), Backup Policies, and now Auto-Tiering. All QuantaStor cloud integration features require no additional QuantaStor license subscription capacity for data stored on the cloud provider such as Seagate Lyve Cloud. This makes adopting a hybrid cloud strategy that much easier to implement and more cost-effective.

"Our customers are often adopting a hybrid cloud strategy as a way to simplify their backup and recovery processes by eliminating tape," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "With Auto-Tiering customers are able to move files to the cloud automatically based on age while still being able to access them as if they were in the local QuantaStor system."

QuantaStor NAS Gateway provides access to Seagate Lyve Cloud object storage buckets via file protocols including NFSv3/v4 and SMBv2/v3.

QuantaStor Backup Policies enable one to configure automatic backups from QuantaStor NAS shares to or from buckets in Seagate Lyve Cloud. This is ideal for use cases such as Media Asset Management as it moves old files to Lyve Cloud to free up local storage space.

QuantaStor Auto-Tiering is a special mode for the Backup Policies where files are tiered to the cloud and replaced with links to corresponding cloud objects so that local file storage space can be freed up thereby providing effectively unlimited capacity.

OSNexus will be at NAB on Monday, April 17th, 2023 for a presentation and live demo at the Seagate booth (N1827) on auto-tiering to the cloud with Lyve Cloud.

For more information on QuantaStor + Seagate and NAB, visit seagate.com/nab-23 or osnexus.com/seagate.

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OSNexus Announces Integration with Seagate Exos CORVAULT

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage, today announced integration and certification of Seagate® Exos® CORVAULT™ for use with QuantaStor 6.

OSNexus QuantaStor now integrates with Seagate Exos CORVAULT enabling scale-up and scale-out cluster configurations deployed with two layers of erasure coding provided by the CORVAULT and a second layer provided by QuantaStor. QuantaStor also monitors CORVAULT systems to provide distributed management and alerting.

Seagate’s Exos CORVAULT is a fully configured, self-healing, direct-attached storage array which combines Seagate’s highest capacity enterprise disk drives with Seagate’s ADAPT and Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) data protection and self-healing technologies. The CORVAULT system presents logical disk groups instead of physical disks to the QuantaStor software and also implements hardware-based erasure coding, which reduces the server CPU resources needed to run QuantaStor by 50% as compared with using JBODs.

QuantaStor uses the CORVAULT’s built-in VelosCT™ ASIC-based ADAPT erasure coding to enable faster system performance and simplified maintenance with faster drive rebuilds within each CORVAULT storage array, eliminating east/west network disk rebuild traffic resulting in less backend system pressure. QuantaStor implements a second layer of erasure coding between CORVAULT systems, significantly increasing system data durability up to 14 9’s.

"The Seagate CORVAULT systems combined with QuantaStor has enabled us to deliver public-cloud like solutions to our customers with over 14x 9s of data durability," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "This is made possible with double-layer erasure coding (QuantaStor + CORVAULT) combined with the integration of CORVAULT management and monitoring into the QuantaStor platform."

"As Seagate continues to grow drive capacity with advanced technology such as heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), it becomes increasingly important to deliver integrated solutions that reduce maintenance and operational costs,” said Erik Salo, Vice President of Product and Business Marketing at Seagate. "We are excited about QuantaStor's integration with CORVAULT as it enables IT organizations to implement scale-out and scale-up file, block and object storage solutions with additional 9s of data durability and lower operational costs."

As compared with a JBOD implementation, QuantaStor Scale-out with Seagate Exos CORVAULT delivers:

• 50% lower server CPU and RAM requirements

• 50% lower maintenance with ADAPT+ADR

• 10% lower OSNexus software license costs

• Increased data durability from 99.999% up to 99.999999999999%

For more information, visit osnexus.com/seagate or seagate.com/solutions/osnexus.

OSNexus Achieves Veeam Ready Qualification for Object Immutability

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced that it has achieved Veeam® Ready qualification for Object Immutability on its QuantaStor platform. This qualification from Veeam, the leader in Modern Data Protection, enables QuantaStor users to S3 bucket object lock in order to satisfy compliance requirements for Veeam backups in regulated industries including Finance and Healthcare.

QuantaStor combined with Veeam provides a flexible, scalable backup solution that combines Veeam’s powerful Modern Data Protection and recovery with QuantaStor’s multi-protocol, feature-rich storage platform. This combination enables organizations to manage all of their storage as one while ensuring availability, securing data, and reducing operational storage costs.

OSNexus, as a Veeam Technology Alliance Partner (VAP), has qualified QuantaStor through Veeam Ready as both an object storage and a file storage (NAS) repository making it an ideal storage platform for rack-scale MSP/CSP backup storage and dedicated backup storage deployments.

"The object storage with immutability that QuantaStor 6 brings is key to protecting backups from ransomware and other security threats," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. “We are very pleased to bring this new level of Veeam solution to our customers as it will help organizations meet their ever increasing data security and protection requirements.”

“Veeam is pleased to have OSNexus QuantaStor qualified for Object Immutability through the Veeam Ready program,” said Andreas Neufert, Vice President of Product Management, Alliances at Veeam. “Veeam works with alliance partners like OSNexus to help us build end-to-end data protection solutions that enable customers to own, control, and protect their data. With QuantaStor’s scale-out object storage solution, Veeam customers have access to immutable storage technology that, when paired with Veeam Backup & Replication, provides multi-layered protection against ransomware and other data threats.”

The Veeam Ready Program provides a solution qualification and testing process to help Veeam Alliance Partner Program members meet Veeam standards. Achieving Veeam Ready status designates the highest level of qualification and testing for storage products by established partners.

The OSNexus QuantaStor platform delivers a complete array of enterprise features and capabilities for file, block, and object storage. Additionally, it addresses a broad set of storage use cases including server virtualization, big data, cloud computing, and high-performance applications through scale-out physical and virtual storage appliances. QuantaStor provides a number of security features including end-to-encryption, RBAC, MFA, SSO, is compliant to HIPAA, NIST 800-171/53 security standards, and is FIPS 140-2 certified making it ideal for meeting the security requirements of larger organizations.

For more information on QuantaStor and Veeam, visit osnexus.com/veeam.

OSNexus Announces QuantaStor 6 with Seagate AP Server Integration

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.

OSNexus Announces QuantaStor 5.12 Expanding Security & Multi-tenancy Focus

OSNexus, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the release of QuantaStor 5.12 with enhanced security features and multi-tenancy capabilities.

As IT teams place a greater focus on security, features like multi-tenancy and KMIP key management have become important tools for simplifying security management and policy enforcement. The newest release of QuantaStor enables organizations to utilize these advanced security features to bring the most robust and secure storage platform to their IT teams.

“QuantaStor’s latest multi-tenancy features enable IT, teams, to isolate resources to specific networks and users to provide greater security," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. “This enables IT organizations and CSPs/MSPs to securely share storage resources across multiple customers, departments, and end users.”

Product Release Highlights

KMIP integration - QuantaStor now leverates Cryptsoft’s Client SDK to provide broad coverage for all major KMIP servers.

Resilio integration - Resilio agent support is now enabled in QuantaStor for bi-directional real-time replication of files across sites and datacenters.

ITSM integration - Alert management now integrates with over a dozen IT Service Management (ITSM) providers including ServiceNow Lightstep, AlertOps, Dynatrace, Atlassian OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Solarwinds Service Desk, Squadcast, Splunk On-Call, and more.

Enhanced load balancer capabilities - Integrated load-balancer for object storage enables high-performance S3 access distributed across all object storage gateways.

OSNEXUS Announces QuantaStor Virtual Storage Appliances (VSAs) for IBM Cloud Gen 2 Data Centers

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced that its QuantaStor software-defined storage platform will now have Virtual Storage Appliances (VSAs) available in IBM’s Gen 2 Data Centers.

QuantaStor Virtual Storage Appliances provide an easy way to deploy dedicated NAS, SAN, and S3 Object storage appliances in the IBM Cloud. QuantaStor's built-in Storage Grid technology enables multiple instances to be combined together to deliver scale-out storage clusters that can span IBM datacenters.

IBM’s next-generation data center represents the next evolution of the converging IT infrastructure, where server, storage, network and virtualization resources are abstracted from the underlying hardware and workloads run on the most appropriate combination of resources, whatever they may be. In this environment, software provides the intelligence for managing the infrastructure dynamically and holistically, based on real-time workload needs. The next-generation data center transforms a static IT infrastructure into a dynamic, workload-aware infrastructure that can anticipate demands and respond with incredible speed.

"OSNEXUS is excited to have QuantaStor available as a virtual storage appliance (VSA) in the IBM Cloud next-gen data centers," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “IBM customers have been deploying QuantaStor on bare metal instances for over a decade now. With QuantaStor available on both bare metal and as a VSA we expect this to further accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud strategies at IBM.”

QuantaStor VSA Key Features

NAS
Provides NFSv3/v4 and SMBv2/v3 protocol support with Active Directory integration to deliver file storage to VMs, containers, and servers.

SAN
Provides iSCSI and NVMeoF TCP support to deliver block storage to VMs, containers, and servers.

S3-Compatible
Deploy three or more QuantaStor instances to build a dedicated S3 compatible object storage cloud with flexible erasure-coding options.

S3 Reverse Proxy
Bridge your IBM Direct Link systems to IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) over the internal IBM network using QuantaStor's reverse proxy feature.

NAS Gateway to IBM COS
Connect your QuantaStor VSA to your IBM COS account to present your buckets as NAS storage accessible via SMB and NFS protocols.

Remote Replication
Replicate data to/from other QuantaStor systems on IBM bare-metal instances or on-prem systems to implement a hybrid cloud strategy.

To access QuantaStor Virtual Storage Appliances in the IBM Cloud, visit cloud.ibm.com.

© 2022 OSNEXUS Corporation. All rights reserved. OSNEXUS and QuantaStor are trademarks or registered trademarks of OSNEXUS Corporation. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.

OSNEXUS Announces QuantaStor 5.11 with KMIP Integration and Self-Encrypting Drive Support

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the release of QuantaStor 5.11 with two major security enhancements: KMIP integration and support for Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) media.

"We’re seeing a roughly 30% boost in storage performance by leveraging the hardware encryption capabilities of all-flash SED media," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “This latest release supports Opal/Ruby compliant SSD media and also introduces the ability to manage the security keys for both hardware and software encryption via KMIP servers. With these additions as well as a wide array of other security features, OSNEXUS is committed to providing the most secure software-defined storage platform on the market.”

Adding new KMIP servers to a QuantaStor storage grid is done by adding a Key Server Profile. Multiple KMIP servers may be added and may be used by both scale-up and scale-out storage pools.

Product Release Highlights

KMIP Integration - QuantaStor now integrates with key management servers that support the KMIP protocol. This enables IT organizations to centralize the management of both software and hardware encryption keys for the encryption of data-at-rest.

Self-Encrypting Drive Support - QuantaStor now integrates with Opal and Ruby compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED/FDE) technology to enable secure, high-performance storage clusters. SED drive management support is also integrated with QuantaStor’s new KMIP integration system.

© 2021 OSNEXUS Corporation. All rights reserved. OSNEXUS and QuantaStor are trademarks or registered trademarks of OSNEXUS Corporation. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.

OSNEXUS Announces QuantaStor 5.10 with Red Hat 8 and Intel Ice Lake Support

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the release of QuantaStor 5.10 with added support for Red Hat 8, Supermicro X12 based systems, and Intel Xeon 3rd Gen (Ice Lake) scalable processors.

"We’re pleased to announce this latest release of QuantaStor with an expanded HCL to enable our customers and partners to deploy QuantaStor on systems with the latest generation of Intel processors," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “The new Ice Lake processors from Intel provide a much needed increase in CPU core count that's ideal for our all-flash and scale-out storage clusters.”

Product Release Highlights

Supermicro X12 System Support - QuantaStor is now certified for use with the latest Supermicro servers based on Intel’s 3rd generation Ice Lake Scalable Xeon processors.

Red Hat 8 Support - QuantaStor can now be installed on RHEL 8.4 servers to help organizations standardizing on RHEL for their compute infrastructure to use QuantaStor for both scale-up and scale-out configurations.

Smart Cluster Network Interfaces for Scale-out Clusters (Ceph based) - QuantaStor’s cluster VIF management system now makes load balancing scale-out storage clusters within a Storage Grid easy. QuantaStor ensures VIFs are both highly-available and activated on the scale-out cluster nodes delivering protocol services for the selected use case (file, block, or object protocols) so user access is never interrupted.

Automatic Disaster Recovery Site Failover - Activation of a DR site can now be fully automated via the Remote Replication Schedule settings, simplifying disaster recovery in the event of an outage at a primary site.

OSNEXUS Announces Integration with Supermicro NVMe Storage Bridge Bay Systems

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage, today announced integration and certification of Supermicro’s NVMe Storage Bridge Bay clustered servers for use with QuantaStor 5.

Together with the OSNEXUS QuantaStor platform, this Supermicro solution delivers robust, fast, and highly scalable NAS/SAN solutions that meet the needs of a wide range of high-performance applications including desktop and server virtualization.

Enhanced high-availability technology designed for the Supermicro Storage Bridge Bay server architecture enables QuantaStor to deliver high-performance all-flash NAS (NFS/SMB) and SAN (iSCSI/FC/NVMeoF) storage in a compact all-in-one enclosure.

"NVMe SSD technology is rapidly displacing traditional SAS SSDs in the datacenter due to its higher throughput and lower latency,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “Supermicro’s pioneering and innovative storage cluster solution built around dual-ported NVMe is a fast and cost-effective way for organizations to move beyond SAS SSD technology.”

QuantaStor grid technology makes it easy to manage multiple storage clusters across sites and replicate data between clusters with ease. With support for the full line of Supermicro SBB systems, QuantaStor enables IT organizations to design cost-effective asymmetrical disaster recovery solutions that are all-flash for the primary site and hybrid at the DR site.

OSNEXUS has certified the NVMe Storage Bridge Bay solutions from Supermicro for use with dual-ported NVMe media from Western Digital, Kioxia, and Micron. For more information on designing OSNEXUS QuantaStor solutions with Supermicro systems, visit supermicro.com/en/solutions/osnexus.

OSNEXUS Announces NVMeoF Composable Storage Management for Ceph

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced support for NVMeoF composable storage management for Ceph with its QuantaStor 5.9 release.

Large organizations are rapidly adopting next-generation NVMeoF technologies to automate the deployment of storage and compute solutions. OSNEXUS QuantaStor now has built-in NVMeoF composable storage management features that enable organizations to leverage this new technology to deploy file, block, and object storage clusters in minutes.

"We are excited to announce our new composable storage management system and its integration with Western Digital OpenFlex in QuantaStor 5.9," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “With this new technology QuantaStor can dynamically attach NVMeoF composable storage to QuantaStor scale-out clusters in just a few clicks or in a fully automated way via QuantaStor APIs.”

Product Release Highlights

Western Digital OpenFlex / NVMeoF Composable Storage - Via the Open Composable API, QuantaStor is now integrated with Western Digital OpenFlex systems including the new OpenFlex Data24. This enables QuantaStor to discover, monitor, and manage composable storage systems and use them to dynamically connect NVMeoF RDMA storage to QuantaStor scale-out storage clusters.

NVMeoF TCP / RDMA - QuantaStor now supports delivering block storage via NVMeoF TCP and consuming storage over NVMeoF RDMA from any NVMeoF RDMA accessible systems. Combined with the composable storage management technology, QuantaStor automates NVMeoF fabric configuration making the adoption of composable storage technologies easy and reliable.

Ceph Multipath Support - QuantaStor now supports the use of multipath attached NVMeoF and SAS/FC attached media for use with Ceph based scale-out storage clusters.

OSNEXUS QuantaStor 5 Platform Achieves Veeam Ready Qualification

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced that it has achieved the Veeam® Ready qualification for Repository on its QuantaStor 5 platform. Veeam® Software is the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management™. The Veeam Ready qualification ensures that QuantaStor users can backup data to Veeam Repositories within QuantaStor and in any public or private cloud.

QuantaStor provides a flexible, scalable backup solution that combines Veeam’s powerful data protection and recovery with QuantaStor’s multi-protocol, feature-rich platform to enable organizations to manage all their storage as one while ensuring availability, and securing data all while saving costs compared to public cloud storage. IT professionals are able to leverage Veeam within the QuantaStor storage platform, supporting seamless backup and disaster recovery as well as an array of file, block, and object capabilities that QuantaStor provides.

"The combination of Veeam and QuantaStor enables IT organizations to reach new levels of performance, flexibility, and operational efficiency for VM backup and restores," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “QuantaStor is an ideal storage platform for Veeam because it gives organizations great scalability and protocol choice with its unified file, block and object capabilities.”

QuantaStor also provides a number of security features including end-to-encryption, HIPAA, and NIST 800-171 compliance which are ideal for meeting the security requirements of larger organizations. FIPS-140-2 certification is in progress and is targeted for Q2/2021.

The Veeam Ready Program provides a solution qualification and testing process to help Veeam Alliance Partner Program members meet Veeam standards. Achieving Veeam Ready status designates the highest level of qualification and testing for storage products by our established partners.

The OSNEXUS QuantaStor platform delivers a complete array of enterprise features and capabilities for file, block, and object storage. Additionally, it addresses a broad set of storage use cases including server virtualization, big data, cloud computing, and high-performance applications through scale-out physical and virtual storage appliances.

For more information on QuantaStor and Veeam, visit osnexus.com/veeam.

QuantaStor 5.8 Released with Automated Reporting, Zero-Touch Maintenance, and Single Sign-On with LDAP

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the newest version of its QuantaStor platform (v5.8). QuantaStor 5.8 includes new automation features around zero-touch maintenance, single sign-on security features, and automated reporting capabilities for monitoring storage grids and grid health.

"With the release of QuantaStor 5.8, OSNEXUS continues to focus on features that bring the public cloud ease-of-use and ease-of-maintenance to the private cloud for utility-grade storage," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “Simplifying storage management has been our main goal with QuantaStor since the beginning and we are happy to further that with this release.”

QuantaStor 5.8 Highlights

Zero-Touch Maintenance - QuantaStor now fully automates the management operations to bring a system to full health after replacing bad media. This feature is especially important for rack-scale and multi-rack configurations because media replacement is more common due to simple factors of scale. Zero-touch maintenance covers both scale-out and scale-up storage pools and QuantaStor’s alerting system automatically notifies IT staff when auto-healing starts and is completed.

Automated Reporting for System Health & Maintenance - Users can now schedule reports to be sent to IT staff automatically, providing a comprehensive summary of storage grid health and storage capacity usage. Reports may be received via email or generated directly using the QuantaStor CLI and QuantaStor REST APIs.

Single Sign-On with LDAP & Active Directory - QuantaStor’s security system has been enhanced to support single sign-on authentication of management users via Active Directory and OpenLDAP. This greatly simplifies security enforcement for large organizations and eliminates the complexity of having to manage multiple passwords for IT staff.

Block Device Copy - QuantaStor now includes a Block Device Copy feature to assist organizations with copying 3rd party iSCSI and FC devices (LUNs) to and from QuantaStor systems. This enables organizations to migrate their data to/from 3rd party SANs to QuantaStor block or file storage. It also enables one to copy LUNs directly from one 3rd party SAN to another 3rd party SAN using QuantaStor systems as a pure data mover.

OSNEXUS Announces S3 Object Storage Bucket Replication and Object Locking in QuantaStor 5

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced that its QuantaStor platform now enables S3 Storage Object Locking for data governance and compliance policy enforcement.

With this latest release, IT staff can provision S3 buckets within QuantaStor with configurable data retention periods to meet the needs of regulated industries.

QuantaStor's ability to manage multiple clusters also makes it easier to manage multi-site object storage zones. With multi-site configurations, a complete copy of every object can be maintained in a second zone with active/active write permissions to add content to buckets anywhere, anytime.

"Regulated industries such as finance and healthcare have strict compliance and data governance requirements which necessitate features like storage object locking," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “We are pleased to bring this capability to QuantaStor to meet the needs of regulated industries in order to help them implement and streamline security and compliance requirements.”

QuantaStor provides a number of other security features including end-to-encryption, HIPAA, and NIST 800-171 compliance making QuantaStor ideal for meeting the security requirements of larger organizations. FIPS-140-2 certification is in progress and is targeted for Q4/2020.

The OSNEXUS QuantaStor platform delivers a complete array of enterprise features and capabilities for file, block, and object storage. Additionally, it addresses a broad set of storage use cases including server virtualization, big data, cloud computing, and high-performance applications through scale-out physical and virtual storage appliances.

QuantaStor 5.8 with Object Locking will be generally available (GA) in November 2020.

OSNEXUS QuantaStor 5.7 Now Available on Red Hat & CentOS 7

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the general availability of QuantaStor 5.7. The new release includes Ceph one-click storage auto-configuration capabilities, metadata offload features, and the availability of QuantaStor on Red Hat RHEL and CentOS 7.8.

QuantaStor 5.7 running on Western Digital Serv60+8 servers with a CentOS 7 base operating system.

“Our customers at major MSPs like IBM Cloud have been looking for QuantaStor on Red Hat in order to meet high security requirements and to enable better integration with enterprise software products within the platform,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “QuantaStor 5.7 is a major milestone for us with the new Red Hat support and will be followed with a number of new security features due out in the QuantaStor 5.8 release in Q4/20.”

Release Highlights

IBM Red Hat & CentOS 7 Support - QuantaStor now runs on RHEL and CentOS 7.8, enabling governments and large organizations to deploy QuantaStor's scale-out software-defined storage platform on the same Linux operating system that's used for general operations and compute. This makes it easier for organizations to implement common security, monitoring, and log collection practices across all their systems.

Advanced Scale-out Storage Configuration - QuantaStor 5.7 now has one-click auto-configuration of storage media for Ceph based scale-out storage clusters. Administrators can now set up complete Ceph clusters for scale-out file, block, and object storage in as few as 10 clicks in the web management interface.

Metadata Offload - QuantaStor now ships with OpenZFS v.8 and integrates with the latest metadata offload features to boost performance for parity based Storage Pool configurations.

OSNEXUS Announces NAS to Cloud Storage Tiering for Dalet MAM

OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced a new NAS to Cloud tiering feature in its latest QuantaStor 5.6 release that enables Media Asset Management (MAM) platforms to dynamically tier media content to Microsoft® Azure blob as a low-cost archive storage tier.

MAM platforms require high-performance NAS storage systems for local media asset editing and playback, but as assets age, they need to be archived to free up space on higher cost NAS systems. Traditionally that migration has been to tape but with low-cost cloud options like Azure Blob, one can now securely and cost-effectively back up to the cloud.

OSNEXUS has created a highly-performing, highly-available NAS storage solution on QuantaStor for MAM platforms that enables users to set up automatic storage tiering to cloud object storage including Microsoft Azure blob.

“QuantaStor’s new cloud storage tiering feature brings a new level of cost efficiency to MAM as companies can now easily offload content to the cloud and that content still appears to be on their local QuantaStor NAS, enabling editors and artists to easily find the content because the system leaves file links behind after data migration,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “Restore times are also improved as MAM systems can retrieve segments of video content from archived files without having to restore the full content stream as would be the case with tape.”

“We’ve been extremely pleased with QuantaStor’s Backup to Cloud capabilities and have worked closely with OSNEXUS to integrate it with the Dalet Media Asset Management platform,” said Paulo Lima, CEO of GTC. “These new capabilities are being leveraged by our major football club customers and they see significant time and cost savings versus previous asset archiving strategies.”

QuantaStor cloud backup uses policies to migrate files from QuantaStor NAS to Microsoft Azure blob storage based on file age. QuantaStor works with Dalet media asset management to enable low-cost archive to Microsoft Azure with easy media recovery including video segments within files without having to download all of the content.

OSNEXUS Announces QuantaStor 5.6 Release with New Innovations in NAS Storage Tiering and Ceph Technology

Hardware enclosure visualization capabilities for Ceph with QuantaStor 5.6.

BELLEVUE, Wash., May 15, 2020 – OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the availability of QuantaStor 5.6. This release introduces several new features including NAS storage tiering to cloud platforms, S3 Reverse Proxy capabilities for IBM Cloud Direct Link, scale-out Ceph technology upgrades, and enhanced hardware enclosure visualization capabilities for Ceph.

Advancing Ceph Adoption

“QuantaStor 5.6 is a major step forward in ease-of-use for deployment, management, and monitoring of scale-out QuantaStor configurations which are built on Ceph technology. Our goal with this release was to make it even easier to deploy and maintain Ceph clusters within QuantaStor,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “One of the highlights in this update is the new hardware visualization system that correlates OSD and Journals to the exact drive slots for every major system manufacturer, most notably the Western Digital Serv60+8 and the HPE Apollo line of systems.”

Starting with this release QuantaStor now includes Ceph v14 (Nautilus), enabling customers to leverage new Ceph RGW features such as S3 object locking.

Along with the new visualization features, this release adds major improvements to the OSD and Journal management system with additional intelligence built into the automated provisioning system. Among other features, the improved system automates journal mirroring and enables customers to use all media types (NVMe, SAS, SATA, and PMEM) for data, caching, and metadata.

NAS Storage Tiering to Cloud Object Storage

QuantaStor now supports NAS to cloud storage tiering to IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), Azure Blob, AWS S3, and S3 Compatible storage enabling automatic data migration to the cloud as a low-cost archive option. When data is migrated the system creates links so that files appear to be local even after migration. Local caching provides greater read & write performance and lowers costs by reducing the number of S3 PUT/GET operations.

S3 Reverse Proxy for IBM Cloud Direct Link

QuantaStor now includes an S3 Reverse Proxy management feature designed specifically for IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) by enabling IBM Cloud Direct Link customers to set up a highly-available S3 reverse proxy in just a few clicks.

“This continues our commitment to IBM Cloud and brings another tool to IBM Cloud customers and architects that boosts security while simplifying hybrid cloud deployment and maintenance,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS. “Now IBM Cloud Direct Link customers can maintain a highly-available S3 Reverse Proxy to their IBM COS storage and at the same time take advantage of other QuantaStor benefits like the NAS gateway to IBM COS and the new NAS to IBM COS (S3) storage tiering features.”