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A replication IP is an address StorONE uses only for replication traffic between two systems — it's kept separate from the floating IPs your hosts and clients connect to, so replication traffic has its own dedicated path and doesn't compete with or get exposed...

Normally, promoting a secondary volume to primary is something you do deliberately, by hand, after confirming the primary side is actually down. The replication witness is an optional arbitration service that continuously monitors both systems in a replication...

Replication keeps a copy of a volume's data continuously up to date on a second, independent StorONE system, so a usable copy of your data exists somewhere else entirely — a different array, a different room, a different site. It's how StorONE provides disaste...

This page covers the commands that create, adjust, and tear down a replication pairing: starting replication on a volume, changing a pairing's protocol, pausing and resuming, and stopping replication entirely. For background on what replication does, see Repli...

Snapshots let you restore an entire volume back to an earlier point in time, but sometimes you only need to know what happened to a single file — when it was created, changed, renamed, or deleted, and which snapshots contain which version of it. SnapONE is Sto...

A snapshot is a point-in-time copy of a volume — or, more precisely, of the volume's entire consistency group (CG), so that every volume sharing a CG is always captured at the same instant. Snapshots are near-instantaneous and space-efficient: StorONE only sto...

A share exposes a folder inside a volume over SMB or NFS, so it can be mounted directly by Windows, Linux, or macOS clients as a network file share — no block-level host mapping required. A volume needs a file system assigned to it before you can add a share t...

This page covers two related ways of managing multiple hosts together: grouping hosts that should share the same volume mappings (useful for clusters), and pairing a host or host group with its counterpart on a remote system for replication. Host groups A host...

A host (also called an initiator) represents a server or client that connects to StorONE block storage — over iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or NVMeOF — so that a volume can be mapped to it. Creating a host registers the identifiers StorONE uses to recognize that serve...

For a NAS server joined to Active Directory, local admins are the Active Directory users or groups granted local administrative rights over the NAS server itself — for example, the ability to manage SMB share permissions from a Windows client using the "Comput...

A NAS server is the identity and authentication endpoint that SMB and NFS shares authenticate against — it's the "server" your Windows and Linux/macOS clients see when they connect, complete with its own name, floating IP(s), and authentication configuration f...

An access key is the S3 credential pair (access key + secret key) that clients use to authenticate against an object store — the S3 equivalent of a username and password. Access keys exist independently of any one object store: you create a key once, then gran...

An object store turns a volume into an S3-compatible endpoint: instead of (or in addition to) mounting the volume as a block device or file share, applications talk to it over HTTP using the S3 API — buckets, objects, and standard S3 tooling all work against i...