Monday
Nov282011
QuantaStor v2.1 enables dynamic pool expansion and virtual network support
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 9:36PM
QuantaStor version 2.1 brings a few new features and some minor fixes to 2.0 which are outlined in our official Change Log. Support for three features in particular stand out from the rest:
Thanks,
The OS NEXUS Team
- Support for growing the size of a hardware RAID unit for LSI MegaRAID and Adaptec controllers.
- With hardware RAID unit expansion you can add additional disks to an existing hardware RAID unit. In version 2 we had support for this at the software RAID level but 2.1 brings this support to the hardware level as well. Once the underlying RAID unit has grown you can do a Storage Pool Expand operation via QuantaStor Manager to complete the process.
- Support for dynamically growing and expanding QuantaStor storage pools through concatenation
- Along with hardware RAID unit expansion you can now concatenate/append hardware RAID units to grow existing pools of storage. For example, if you have a storage pool utilizing a 10TB RAID5 hardware unit you can add to it a 8TB RAID5 hardware unit to grow your storage pool from 10TB usable to 18TB usable. The Storage Pool grow operation takes just a few seconds.
- Virtual network interfaces allowing for failover between physical interfaces.
- Virtual network ports/interfaces can float between physical interfaces and is a key tool for being able to map your QuantaStor system into VPNs.
Thanks,
The OS NEXUS Team
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