OSNexus QuantaStor V5.6 SDS With NAS Storage Tiering and Ceph Technology

OSNexus Corp. announced the availability of QuantaStor 5.6 software-defined storage platform.

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This release introduces several 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, 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 includes Ceph v14 (Nautilus), enabling customers to leverage Ceph RGW features such as S3 object locking.

Along with the new visualization features, this release adds 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 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 read and write performance and lowers costs by reducing the number of S3 PUT/GET operations.

S3 reverse proxy for IBM Cloud direct link
QuantaStor 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 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, 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.“

QuantaStor 5.6 is available for download under a 30 day ‘Trial Edition license‘ (up to 1PB) as well as via a free Community Edition license (up to four systems and 160TB).

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