OSNexus Delivers Major Enhancements in QuantaStor 6.6 with Replication, Multi-Tenancy, and Expanded Ceph Integration

OSNexus, leading manufacturer of software-defined storage solutions, announced the newest release of its QuantaStor platform with major enhancements in replication, multi-tenancy, and expanded Ceph integration.

QuantaStor is designed to meet the growing demand for secure, multi-tenant, and massively scalable storage across enterprise, HPC, and hybrid cloud deployments. By integrating replication, tenancy isolation, advanced dashboards, and Ceph ecosystem upgrades, OSNexus continues to deliver on its mission to make storage simpler, more secure, and future-ready at any scale.

"QuantaStor 6.6 is one of our most significant releases yet, delivering new capabilities in object storage replication, multi-tenant block storage, and security features like certificate management that customers have been asking for," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "With extensive new usage dashboards and real-time stats, this release makes it easier than ever to deploy and manage QuantaStor storage grids."

Highlights of QuantaStor 6.6

• New Bucket Replication system provides fine grained control over per bucket replication between zones

• New Portal Groups feature enables multi-tenant FC and iSCSI support for scale-out Ceph based clusters

• New dashboards for object tenants, users, buckets, shares, and volumes makes it easy to track usage over time

• New support for managing scale-out file data pools makes it easy to assign shares to different tiers

• New certificate management system makes it easy to apply and update certificates to object gateways and other services

OSNexus Announces QuantaStor 6.5 with Anomaly Detection

OSNexus, leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, today announced the newest release of its QuantaStor platform with anomaly detection for ransomware, platform updates, and web user interface enhancements.

QuantaStor 6.5 introduces anomaly detection to help to identify anomalous Network Share usage and raises alerts when possible ransomware activity has been detected. This is accomplished through continuous file system monitoring and comparing file activity levels to predefined thresholds for 'normal' usage. This feature, paired with the Snapshot Schedule feature, provides critical ransomware protection.

QuantaStor 6.5 with new analytics dashboards.

"With QuantaStor 6.5, OSNexus continues our strong focus on security with new anomaly detection capabilities," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "These features go hand-in-hand with QuantaStor's immutable snapshots and WORM support, enabling organizations to more rapidly detect and respond to anomalous activity like ransomware attacks."

Highlights of QuantaStor 6.5

• Anomaly detection that simplifies the identification and inspection of unauthorized usage and ransomware

• Upgrades QuantaStor's underlying linux distribution and filesystems (Ceph & OpenZFS)

• Redesigned web user interface includes new dashboards for thermals, power consumption, and utilization stats for object storage tenants and users

OSNexus Achieves DCIG's TOP 5 Award for Enterprise SDS Block Storage Solutions for 2025-2026

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 15, 2024 — OSNexus is proud to announce that its QuantaStor platform has achieved DCIG's TOP 5 Award for Enterprise SDS Block Storage Solutions for 2025-2026. This report is now available for download and provides enterprises with guidance on the best SDS block storage solutions for deploying business- and mission-critical IT environments.

In preparing this report, DCIG formally evaluated over 20 different SDS block storage solutions based on multiple different features and capabilities. The general categories under which the features of these SDS block storage solutions fell included:
●    Data protection and security
●    Deployments options
●    Product and performance management
●    Technical support

"Software-defined storage (SDS) block storage solutions have come of age as they offer multiple proof points that demonstrate their enterprise levels of interoperability, performance, and support," said DCIG CEO and Principal Analyst, Jerome Wendt. "Adopting these solutions give enterprises new flexibility to simplify their storage management tasks while better positioning them to embrace today's hybrid cloud world."

OSNexus QuantaStor Block Storage feature highlights:

• Broad support for public clouds and virtualized environments: Enterprises may deploy QuantaStor in any of the three major general-purpose public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.) QuantaStor's broad support for the cloud extends to supporting backup and auto-tiering to cloud object storage targets from multiple providers.
  

• Massive scalability: QuantaStor runs on 64-bit commodity servers, or virtual machines, and scales out using either physical or virtual nodes and supports many different hardware vendors. QuantaStor virtually combines the compute and storage resources of the Storage Grid server nodes, enabling it to scale to over 100+PB per storage grid.
  

• Multiple options to dynamically move storage pools within a QuantaStor Storage Grid: QuantaStor's high availability feature includes automatic failover and asynchronous remote replication. These features facilitate data migrations of storage pools as well as fast failovers of storage pools within a Storage Grid. QuantaStor's highly parallelized HA failover system delivers these functions.

"With the recent shake up in the hypervisor market we're seeing increased demand for QuantaStor block storage deployments," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "Through partnerships with Supermicro and Seagate we've worked together to deliver turn-key appliances to make deployment of new systems leveraging the latest technologies easier than ever."

Read the 2025-26 DCIG Block Storage report with QuantaStor's solution profile here.

OSNexus Certifies SupremeRAID™ by Graid Technology for Use with Supermicro Servers

BELLEVUE, Wash., July 9, 2024 -- OSNexus and Graid Technology today announced a new certification for SupremeRAID™, enabling integration with OSNexus QuantaStor.

GPU-accelerated SupremeRAID™ maximizes the performance and usable capacity of SSDs and delivers 8x~10x performance gain over traditional hardware and software RAID by utilizing patented out-of-path technology, which separates the control and data paths.

OSNexus QuantaStor enables organizations to replace traditional file, block and object storage systems with standard servers to deliver robust, reliable, and highly scalable object, file, and block storage solutions that are easy to deploy and maintain in a single platform.

Benefits of OSNexus + Graid:
Localized Rebuilds - Increase performance for scale-out configurations as no network bandwidth is required to rebuild from hot spare.
Durability - Greatly boosts durability as every node can sustain a device failure simultaneously, which is not possible using Ceph standard replication and EC modes.
Higher Fault Tolerance - Provides advanced redundancy, allowing multiple drive failures without data loss.
Optimized Rebuild Times - Faster recovery from disk failures, reducing downtime.
Unified Management and Automation - Offers a centralized console for monitoring and configuring RAID arrays, while automating rebuilds and health checks to simplify maintenance.
High Availability with Seamless Failover - Ensures continuous operation and minimizes downtime through high-availability configurations and automatic fail-over processes that maintain data access and system functionality during maintenance or failure events.

"SupremeRAID™ by Graid Technology, combined with the exceptional capabilities of OSNexus and Supermicro, sets a new benchmark for data storage solutions. Together, we are empowering businesses by revolutionizing the way they manage and protect their critical data," said Leander Yu, President and CEO of Graid Technology. "This collaboration delivers unparalleled durability, fault tolerance, and seamless management, enhancing how organizations deploy and maintain scalable storage systems."

"In our scale-out Ceph cluster testing with SupremeRAID™ controllers, we found that even while a drive was rebuilding, we had a modest boost in performance versus a standard Ceph configuration," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "Using SupremeRAID™ is a great way to ensure constant, consistent cluster performance with substantially increased durability with the combination of Ceph software replicas and erasure coding combined with SupremeRAID™ RAID5."

QuantaStor and Graid were tested and certified with Supermicro A+ Server 1114S-WN10RT.

"Supermicro has been working with both OSNexus and Graid Technology for many years to deliver high performance storage solutions using Supermicro's line of Petascale All-Flash storage servers," said Vik Malyala, President & Managing Director, EMEA; SVP, Technology & AI, Supermicro. "This new solution combining GPU accelerated SupremeRAID™ with OSNexus's scale-up and scale-out QuantaStor storage software brings even higher levels of performance and data resiliency to Supermicro's storage customers."

For more information, visit osnexus.com, graidtech.com, and supermicro.com.

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.

Download the Seagate x OSNexus solution brief for Media & Entertainment for more information.

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-compatible 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.