OSNexus QuantaStor V.6.0 Software with Seagate AP Storage Server Integration

OSNexus Corp. announced the QuantaStor 6.0 delivering the latest in software-defined technology and support.

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QuantaStor 6.0 is 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 Super Micro Computer, Inc. and Seagate Technology Holdings plc.

“QuantaStor 6 brings over 150 product improvements, making it one of our most comprehensive releases to date,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO. “Customers and VAR partners have been really pleased with the many improvements in performance, usability, and hardware coverage that version 6 brings.”

Seagate Exos AP 2U24 storage server

Release highlights:

• Seagate AP server support – QuantaStor integrates with the line of Seagate AP storage servers based on AMD processors (Bonneville series) including the Seagate 5U84 AP, 2U24 AP, and 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 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 FC support – QuantaStor’s FC target support has been expanded to include the latest generation of 32Gb FC HBAs from Qlogic Corp. 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.

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