Available From OSNexus, QuantaStor V5.8 SDS Platform

OSNexus Corp. announced the QuantaStor v5.8 platform.

It includes 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. “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 – It automates the management operations to bring a system to full health after replacing bad media. This feature is 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.
Single sign-on with LDAP and Active Directory – Security system has been enhanced to support single sign-on authentication of management users via Active Directory and OpenLDAP. This simplifies security enforcement for large organizations and eliminates the complexity of having to manage multiple passwords for IT staff.
Block device copy – It includes this 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.