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QoreStor 6.1.0 - VM Deployment Guide

QoreStor Administration

The Administration Menu includes the options described in the table below. In addition, the Administration menu includes a status banner that indicates the status of the QoreStor service:

  • Blue: Operational Mode
  • Red: Manual Intervention
  • Yellow: Maintenance Mode
Table 7: Operation menu options
Menu item Available configurations

Network Config

Allows you to edit the network configuration.

Set Hostname

Allows you to change the hostname configuration.

Storage resize

Allows you to increase the storage available to QoreStor. Refer to Storage resizing for more information.

NOTE: In order for additional capacity to be available to QoreStor, QoreStor must be properly licensed for the additional capacity.

QoreStor services

Provides options to check, stop, start, and restart QoreStor services.

QoreStor Update

Provides options to check for available QoreStor updates, download the Qorestor update package, and update QoreStor if the package is valid.

QoreStor Maintenance Provides access to QoreStor filesystem maintenance utilities and diagnostic management. Refer to QoreStor Maintenance for more information.

QoreStor Advanced Features

Provides options to tune system performance:

  • Replication Tuning - allows you to configure the number of concurrent replication streams. Default value is 1.
  • Buffers TCP Tuning - allows you to change the system buffer configuration up to 1.5 GB.
  • ActiveDS tuning - allows you to enable or disable ActiveDS on the metadata location.
  • O3E IO Thread tuning - Enables IO thread tuning. This requires a restart of the QoreStor services.
  • SMB Offload Copy - Enables SMB Server Offload Copy support, used for Rapid CIFS-based Veeam Fast Clone backups. Enabling this option requires a restart of QoreStor services.

Troubleshooting tools

Provides tools to troubleshoot your QoreStor machine. Consult the documentation for each utility for more information.

  • EPEL Repository - Enables or disables the Oracle EPEL repository.
  • top - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage.
  • atop - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install atop on first use.
  • htop - - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install htop on first use.
  • iotop - allows you to view I/O usage.
  • iftop - allows you to view bandwidth usage. You will be prompted to install iftop on first use.
  • nmon - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install nmon on first use.
  • glances - - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install glances on first use.
  • tree - provides a recursive directory listing with a depth-indented listing of files. You will be prompted to install tree on first use.

NOTE: To return to the Troubleshooting tools menu from the selected monitoring tool, press q to quit.

Operating System

Provides options to update, restart, and shutdown the operating system. Additionally, this menu provides options for removing and/or adding the built-in QoreStor accounts (root, qsservice, and qsadmin).

Terminal

Provides options to select from a list of terminal emulators. Options are:

  • XTERM
  • XTERM-256
  • ANSI
  • VT220
  • VT110

Color theme

Provides options to change the color theme settings.

Locale Provides the option to select the locale for QoreStor. Currently, the only option is US English.
Proxy Settings

Provides the option to enable proxy settings.

NOTE: Editing or disabling proxy settings requires QoreStor services to be restarted.

QoreStor Maintenance

The QoreStor System Maintenance menu provides access to both diagnostic and maintenance utilities for QoreStor. The QoreStor System Maintenance menu includes the utilities listed in the table below.

Table 8: QoreStor Maintenance menu options
Menu item Available configurations

QoreStor Diagnostics
  • Diagnostics Show
  • Diagnostics Collect
  • Diagnostics Delete
  • Diagnostics Delete All

Maintenance Filesystem
  • Filesystem Scan Status
  • Filesystem Scan Report
  • Filesystem Scan Start
  • Filesystem Scan Restart
  • Filesystem Scan Stop
  • Filesystem Repair Start
  • Filesystem Repair Progress
  • Filesystem Repair History
  • Filesystem Clear Quarantine
  • Filesystem Start Cleaner
  • Filesystem Stop Cleaner

QoreStor Statistics

The QoreStor Stats menu provides access to QoreStor system statistics. The QoreStor Stats menu includes the statistics listed below:

  • System
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Container
  • Storage Group
  • Replication
  • Cleaner
  • Clients
  • Servers
  • Seed

Storage resizing

IMPORTANT: Before beginning a storage resize operation, ensure all backup, replication, and cleaner operations are stopped.

The QoreStor VM supports the ability to incorporate additional storage capacity. Adding storage capacity has the following requirements:

  • Storage must be added through the virtualization platform before performing any operations on the QoreStor VM.
  • Newly added storage must be discovered by QoreStor.
  • If your QoreStor license does not currently allow for the newly added storage, the QoreStor licensing must be updated to reflect the additional capacity.

To add storage to QoreStor:

  1. Refer to the documentation for your virtualization platform version for instructions on resizing hard disks.
  2. For Tier 1 VMs, locate the data disk and expand it to the desired size. Refer to QoreStor VM Specifications for maximum supported storage size.

    OR

    For Tier 2 VMs, locate each of the three data disks and expand each disk equally. Refer to QoreStor VM Specifications for maximum supported storage size.

    IMPORTANT: When the QoreStor VM discovers the newly added free space, the discovered amount will be equal to the smallest available amount. For proper operation, each data disk must be expanded to the same size.

  3. After resizing the data disks, poweron the QoreStor VM and access the QoreStor Administration menu.
  4. Select Storage resize. The newly added space will be detected. Select OK to allocate the storage.

    NOTE: QoreStor services will be restarted.

  5. You will be prompted when the system has fully restarted. Select Done.
  6. If youre newly configured storage space exceeds your licensed capacity, add a new QoreStor license. Refer to the QoreStor User Guide for more information.
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