Acronis Storage 2.0 Quick Start Guide

Acronis Storage 2.0

Quick Start Guide

March 11, 2017

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Contents

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.1 About Acronis Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.2 Acronis Storage Deployment Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Preparing for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1 Minimal Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.2 Network Setup Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3. Installing Acronis Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.1 Installing Management Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2 Obtaining the Token . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.3 Installing Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4. Creating the Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.1 Creating the Cluster on the First Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.2 Adding Nodes to the Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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CHAPTER 1

Introduction

To support the growing demand for both high performance and high data availability, modern data centers

need a fast, flexible storage solution. Existing solutions, however, are often difficult to manage and maintain,

or not flexible enough (e.g., local RAID arrays), or too expensive (e.g., storage area networks).

Acronis Storage is designed to solve these issues. It can run on commodity hardware, so no significant infras-

tructure investments are needed. It is also is easy to set up and grow on demand.

1.1 About Acronis Storage

Acronis Storage is a software-defined storage solution that allows you to quickly and easily transform low-

cost commodity hardware and network equipment into protected enterprise-grade storage like storage area

networks (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS).

Acronis Storage is optimized for storing large amounts of data and provides data redundancy (replication and

erasure coding), high availability, self-healing, and storage sharing.

In Acronis Storage, user data is stored on organized clusters of servers in the form of fixed-size chunks. These

chunks are automatically replicated and distributed across available servers in the cluster to ensure high avail-

ability of user data.

Cluster storage space can be exported through access points like iSCSI, S3, or Acronis Backup Gateway.

1.2 Acronis Storage Deployment Overview

To deploy Acronis Storage for evaluation purposes, you will need to do the following:

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Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Install management panel, the web-based user interface for managing Acronis Storage clusters, on one

of the servers in your infrastructure.

2. Install Acronis Storage on every other server in your infrastructure.

3. Create a cluster in Acronis Storage.

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CHAPTER 2

Preparing for Installation

This chapter lists the system requirements for Acronis Storage 2 and recommendations on network setup.

2.1 Minimal Hardware Requirements

Acronis Storage works on top of commodity hardware, so you can create a cluster from regular servers, disk,

and network cards. At least five physical servers are required to evaluate all Acronis Storage features.

The following table lists minimal hardware required for a single node in the cluster:

CPU Dual-core

RAM 2GB

Disks Three 100GB HDDs

Network 1 Gbps or faster network interface

Even though five physical servers are recommended for the minimal configuration, you can start evaluating

Acronis Storage with just one server and add more nodes later. At the very least, an Acronis Storage can be

run on a single server or virtual machine. However, such a configuration will have several limitations:

• No data redundancy and protection will be provided. Failure of any disk will result in data loss.

• No high availability. Just one server or virtual machine will be a single point of failure. If it fails or stops,

the entire cluster will stop working.

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