Administration guide

Welcome to StorPool’s administration guide! Here you can find low-level details on how StorPool functions, and how to get the optimal performance from it. For example, how to add a node to the cluster, how to use the background services, when and how to set a multi-cluster, and so on.

The information provided in this guide is intended for senior-level system administrators. To use it, it is expected you have good understanding in the networking and storage areas, and are well familiar with Linux and command-line interfaces.

Node management

• Adding and removing nodes
• Node configuration options
• Node maintenance
• Control groups
• Hugepages

Drive management

• Drive management
• Redundancy
• Automatic drive tests

Volume management

• Volumes and snapshots
• Setting IOPS and bandwidth limits
• Quality of service

Services

• Background services
• Managing services with storpool_ctl

Features

• Rebalancing the cluster
• Multi-server
• Introduction to multi-cluster mode
• Multi-site and multi-cluster
• Setting iSCSI targets

Storage clients

• iSCSI overview
• Connecting a VMware ESXi host to StorPool iSCSI
• Connecting a Windows Server 2012-2022 host to StorPool iSCSI
• Configuring a Linux initiator for StorPool iSCSI
• Enable TRIM/Discard operations for KVM-based clouds

For more information, see:

• The Installation and setup guide provides details on choosing hardware for your cluster, installing StorPool, and performing initial setup.

• The Operations guide provides details on activities related to ensuring StorPool is running well. This includes monitoring, maintenance, and best practices.

• The Reference guide provides details on the command line interface (CLI) tools and the REST API provided by StorPool.

• The StorPool integrations guide provides details on using StorPool with hypervisors and cloud management and orchestration tools.