Are all your IT resources being used efficiently?

As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or corporate decision maker, you manage the corporate's IT operations and infrastructure. At present, the global economy is not very prosperous. You may not have much budget to buy new equipment, but there are growing storage requirements. You may have some servers for deploying applications, such as database, WEB application, etc., these servers have spare disk slots, and the utilization of CPU and memory may be not very high. So, why not make full use of these servers, fill up the disk slots, and let these servers be used for data storage at the same time? Especially for secondary storage like backups and archives, you don’t need to purchase a separate SAN storage device, you can use software-defined storage to save the TCO.

Can all software-defined storage be mixed deployed with existing applications, regardless of the hardware environment and operating system? Of course not.

Some software-defined storage products can only be deployed on the Windows operating system, not the Linux operating system. The most basic system requirements are not met.

Some software-defined storage products cannot be installed by users themselves, but can only be installed by vendors after logging in to the server remotely. But you don’t dare to hand over servers that have deployed databases or web applications to vendors to deploy their products.

Some other software-defined storage products, although users can install and deploy them by themselves, but the installation package is an ISO file, how can it be mixed with existing applications?

So what do you need to do to use existing IT resources to build a new storage system? Use QStora.

First, QStora is installed and deployed in a brand-new way, it is process-level, user-mode, and can be mixed deployed with any other applications. QStora can be easily installed on the Linux operating system of any brand and any configuration of physical servers, bare metal servers, virtual machines and even container instances. QStora is completely decoupled with hardware drivers. You can make full use of existing resources.

Second, QStora supports heterogeneous hardware deployment. Each Linux operating system instance in the cluster could have different hardware configurations, such as different numbers of CPUs, different sizes of memory, different capacities of local hard drives, different types of storage medias, etc. Therefore, you do not need to prepare multiple servers with the same configuration to form a storage cluster.

Third, QStora provides thin provisioning. Thin provisioning offers applications with much more virtual storage space than that is available on the actual physical storage devices, it allows the system to present storage devices without occupying any space until data is written into logical volumes. So if you don't have much physical storage space for a while, you can use thin provisioning to create volumes. For example, you only have 1PB of space, but you can create 3PB of volumes. When resources are sufficient, you can add new servers or disks to the cluster. This expansion process will not affect the business continuity.

If you want to quickly verify our product, you don't need to send emails, call, or pay. Just register as a user on www.qstora.com, and then you can download the software installation package. QStora is free to download, install and use at the current stage, and user can obtain online technical support through this website. Find one or a few idle servers to try QStora, and you will be pleasantly surprised for it!