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Installation
The S1 storage system provides a hardware-agnostic storage solution based on the S1 single storage engine. The basic hardware components for the S1 system include: Node servers (the platform) A management station called a relay Disk enclosures (JBODs) ...
Administration
The StorONE system can be managed using an embedded web interface, or a bundled command line interface (CLI) client. The web interface and the CLI download are both accessible by navigating to the DNS name or IP address of any StorONE controller node using you...
CLI
The StorONE system provides a robust command line interface (CLI) for managing the system. Commands in the StorONE CLI follow the docopt notation with slight differences. The docopt notation provides a program interface description based on decades of conventi...
Overview
Overview of the StorONE system and architecture.
Getting Started
The S1 storage engine is designed to manage storage for various applications, including VMWare ESXi servers, web servers, file servers, and databases. The purpose of this section is to get you started using the S1 engine for provisioning and managing storage.
REST API
The StorONE system provides a REST API to manage the system. All actions that can be performed using the CLI are available in the API. You can access the interactive API documentation (built with Swagger) by navigating in your browser to the name or IP addres...
Web Application Interface
The StorONE web application provides a user-friendly graphical interface to manage the node server. Since the web application is entirely compliant with the HTML5 standard, using it only requires a web browser.
3.8 Release Notes
New features, fixed issues, changed behaviors, and known issues for StorONE 3.8 releases.
3.7 Release Notes
New features, fixed issues, changed behaviors, and known issues for StorONE 3.7 releases.
Overview
Overview of the StorONE system and architecture.
Installation and Upgrade
The S1 storage system provides a hardware-agnostic storage solution based on the S1 single storage engine. The basic hardware components for the S1 system include: Node servers (the platform) A management station called a relay Disk enclosures (JBODs) ...
Getting Started
The S1 storage engine is designed to manage storage for various applications, including VMWare ESXi servers, web servers, file servers, and databases. The purpose of this section is to get you started using the S1 engine for provisioning and managing storage.
Administration
The StorONE system can be managed using an embedded web interface, or a bundled command line interface (CLI) client. The web interface and the CLI download are both accessible by navigating to the DNS name or IP address of any StorONE controller node using you...
CLI
The StorONE system provides a robust command line interface (CLI) for managing the system. Commands in the StorONE CLI follow the docopt notation with slight differences. The docopt notation provides a program interface description based on decades of conventi...
Web Application Interface
The StorONE web application provides a user-friendly graphical interface to manage the node server. Since the web application is entirely compliant with the HTML5 standard, using it only requires a web browser.
REST API
The StorONE system provides a REST API to manage the system. All actions that can be performed using the CLI are available in the API. You can access the interactive API documentation (built with Swagger) by navigating in your browser to the name or IP addres...
VMware
Applications
The applications command provides a diverse set of subcommands that allow you to utilize the physical storage. To use the physical storage, you need to create application instances, which act as abstract containers for logical volumes. Therefore, before creati...
Application Volume
The S1 system provides storage through abstract layer known as Virtual Storage Containers (or logical volumes). All logical volumes are associated to applications that act as container of volumes and their block/file connectivity. In the Application Volume pa...
Monitoring
The StorONE system provides a range of features including software and hardware monitoring, operations management, and configuration capabilities for statistics. With its comprehensive monitoring functionality, it enables you to effectively track performance, ...
Inventory
To manage inventory for storage configuration The Inventory section provides interface for displaying and configuring physical drive resources and Floating IPs. It also allows you to check the Tunnel status that goes between the two server nodes and to Enab...
Administration
Administrating the system The S1 system enables collaborative monitoring and storage control by allowing multiple users to be created and granted with various levels of access. It also includes a sophisticated notification system that sends real-time monito...
Examples
Replication
The StorONE system includes a robust and flexible replication solution that can be used for high availability and disaster recovery (DR). You can configure replication at the virtual storage container (VSC) level, giving you maximum flexibility to meet your da...
API reference Guide
This section documents API endpoints and examples.
Replication
The StorONE system includes a robust and flexible replication solution that can be used for high availability and disaster recovery (DR). You can configure replication at the virtual storage container (VSC) level, giving you maximum flexibility to meet your da...
Applications
The command provides a diverse set of subcommands that allow you to utilize the physical storage. To use the physical storage, you need to create application instances, which act as abstract containers for logical volumes. Therefore, before creating a logical...
Applications and volumes
The S1 system provides storage through Virtual Storage Containers (also referred to as volumes). All volumes are associated with Applications that act as a logical namespace for volumes to help you organize your volumes. In the Applications section of the web...
Monitoring
The StorONE system provides a range of features including software and hardware monitoring, operations management, and configuration capabilities for statistics. With its comprehensive monitoring functionality, it enables you to effectively track performance, ...
Inventory
The Inventory section provides interface for displaying and configuring physical drive resources and Floating IPs. It also allows you to check the Tunnel status that goes between the two server nodes and to Enable or Disable the tunnel communication between th...
Administration
The S1 system enables collaborative monitoring and storage control by allowing multiple users to be created and granted with various levels of access. It also includes a sophisticated notification system that sends real-time monitoring messages based on your c...
Examples
API reference Guide
This section documents API endpoints and examples.
Snapshots
In the StorONE system, snapshots are taken at the consistency group level. This means that when you take a snapshot of a virtual storage container (VSC, also referred to as volume in the documentation and user interfaces), the system takes an application-consi...
Windows Space Reclamation (fstrim/SCSI discard)
Summary In some cases you can have a situation where your Windows Host will show that you have X amount of free space but the S1 Array will show considerably more space in use or possibly a full volume. In these situations you may need to enable space reclam...
Linux NFS, FC, and iSCSI
Summary: This guide is for all levels of Linux administrators from beginning to advanced and covers basic configuration and connectivity for various Linux operating systems. It does not cover application specific changes, recommendations or tuning requirem...
Windows getting started guide
This guide is for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and above. This guide was specifically tested with Windows Server 2019, Windows Hyper-V Server 2022, and Windows Server 2022. Introduction This guide provides the recommended best practices for using the StorON...
Hardware Requirements
The S1 system provides a software-only solution using off-the-shelf hardware components. This section lists the minimum required hardware. Hardware category Requirements Node Server A 64-bit x86 server. Storage S1 HA deploym...
Floating IPs
You can create and pair floating IPs using the command line interface (CLI) or the web interface. For more information about floating IPs and how they are used in the StorONE system, see Floating IPs. Creating a floating IP for NAS, object store, or replicatio...
Create Replication Floating IP
Before you can replicate a virtual storage container (VSC, also referred to as a volume in the documentation and user interfaces), you must create a replication floating IP on the source and target StorONE deployments. The replication floating IP is distinct f...
Replicating an object store
Before you begin Before you can replicate an object store, you must first make sure: Pools with names matching the pools used by the source volume exist on the target system. The destination system has enough free capacity to accommodate the replicated volume...
Replicating a file-based volume
Before you begin Before you can replicate a file-based virtual storage container (NFS or CIFS/SMB), you must first make sure: Pools with names matching the pools used by the source volume exist on the target system. The destination system has enough free capa...
Encryption
The S1 CLI allows you to generate an encryption key. You can use this key to encrypt the consistency group. Notice that there is no direct command to encrypt the consistency group. When creating a new volume, you have the option to encrypt it. When you encrypt...
Objects
Object storage architecture Object storage is a storage architecture that manages data in a flat namespace of individual objects. The object storage system is self-contained, with metadata for each object stored with the object. Object stores can contain a ...
Snapshots
You can take snapshots manually for volumes or consistency groups. To take a snapshot of a volume or consistency group, use the application snapshots take command. Usage: applications snapshots take --all|(--application=<name> --volume=<name>)|(--cgid...
File systems
A logical volume provides storage that can be used in different ways. For example, you can use a logical volume to create block-level, object-level, or file-level storage. Adding file systems File systems are required for NAS and Object storage. To add a fil...
Mappings
The applications mappings add command maps volumes (that are in the same application instance) to a host or a cluster. The mapping becomes part of a storage area network (SAN) providing block-level storage. The command allows you to choose the network protocol...
Shares
You can create file Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS) file shares on the StorONE system. File shares allow multiple users to access files simultaneously on a network attached storage (NAS) server. Before you begin To create a share ...
Volumes
A volume is a collection of blocks presented to the operating environment as a single disk-like storage unit. In many systems, including Linux and Windows, a logical volume can span multiple physical disk drives. In the StorONE (S1) system, the underlying bloc...
Nodes
The most commonly deployed StorONE (S1) system consists of a two-node cluster. The nodes are servers with a high availability (HA) connection. The S1 system manages the controller node servers and their peripherals. Each node has its own internal storage and S...
Users
The StorONE (S1) system may be accessed by multiple users. Using the S1 CLI client, you can list, create, edit, and delete users. Create a new user To create a new user, use the users create command. Usage: users create <name> --password=<password> --role=<per...
Basic commands
The StorONE command line interface (CLI) provides five fundamental commands that allow users to manage and control the CLI itself: exit To exit the CLI application, run the command exit. logout To logout from the remote connection, use the logout command. This...
Settings
The settings command can help you to increase security, detect abnormal storage capacity allocation, and adjust the output display according to your preferences. CLI output preferences To modify the display output format, use the settings output command. You...
Configurations
A typical StorONE (S1) system consists of a highly available (HA) two-node cluster. The S1 system that manages the node servers and their peripherals. Each node has its own internal storage where the S1 operating system resides. Both nodes connect to an exter...