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Dedup and Compression

Dedup and Compression – QSAN White Paper This document explains data reduction techniques, including deduplication and compression, for QSAN XEVO and QSM systems. It outlines how these features red...
Best Practice – Configuring winACL with AD (QSM4)

Best Practice – Configuring winACL with AD (QSM4) This article summarizes the best practices for configuring Windows ACLs in QSM4 when joining an Active Directory (AD) domain and managing CIFS shar...
JetStor NVMe Series – 2025 Test Results and Product Overview

JetStor NVMe Series – 2025 Test Results and Product Overview This document presents JetStor’s 2025 NVMe test results and technical updates, featuring end-to-end NVMe performance, data reduction ben...
Connect to Western Digital Ultrastar® Hybrid Storage Guide

Connect to Western Digital Ultrastar® Hybrid Storage Guide This article provides technical guidance to connect QSAN storage systems to Western Digital Ultrastar® Data60/Data102 hybrid JBODs as expa...
CSI Driver and Kubernetes Integration – Application Note

CSI Driver and Kubernetes Integration – Application Note This article summarizes the QSAN CSI driver for Kubernetes, covering when and how to use it with XCubeSAN as external storage to provide per...
Proxmox Setup Guide – Application Note

Proxmox Setup Guide – Application Note This article summarizes how to configure Proxmox VE with QSAN storage using iSCSI, SMB/CIFS, and NFS, including basic HA cluster setup and VM migration/failov...
VMware Setup Guide – Application Note

VMware Setup Guide – Application Note This article summarizes how to integrate VMware with QSAN storage: connecting iSCSI LUNs to ESXi 8, enabling VAAI offloads, deploying the VASA Provider, config...
Expansion Unit Connection Guide – Best Practice

Expansion Unit Connection Guide – Best Practice This article provides technical instructions for connecting XD5 series SAS expansion enclosures to QSAN storage, including supported models, cable op...
Storage Performance Tuning Guide – Best Practice

Storage Performance Tuning Guide – Best Practice This article provides technical guidance for setting up iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) connections on QSAN XCubeFAS, XCubeSAN, XCubeNXT, and XCubeNAS ...
Auto Tiering – QSAN White Paper

Auto Tiering – QSAN White Paper This article summarizes auto tiering for QSAN systems (XEVO, SANOS). It explains tier categories (SSD/SAS/NL-SAS), architecture and policies, statistics-based reloca...
How to Implement iSCSI MPIO on Windows Server 2022 – White Paper

How to Implement iSCSI MPIO on Windows Server 2022 – White Paper This article explains how to configure Multipath I/O (MPIO) for QSAN storage on Windows Server 2022 using the built-in Windows featu...
Remote Replication – QSAN White Paper

Remote Replication – QSAN White Paper This article summarizes QSAN Remote Replication for disaster recovery, covering synchronous and asynchronous modes, theory of operation, configuration, support...
Snapshot, Microsoft VSS, and XAgent – White Paper

Snapshot, Microsoft VSS, and XAgent – White Paper This article summarizes snapshot operations, Microsoft VSS, and the XAgent desktop application. It explains copy-on-write snapshots (management, ro...
SSD Cache – QSAN White Paper

SSD Cache – QSAN White Paper This article explains SSD cache for QSAN systems, covering read and read-write cache operation, pool architecture and RAID levels, cache population thresholds, tuning p...