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Version: vStor 4.10

Initializing vStor

To initialize the vStor server after installation, follow these steps using the vStor Management Interface:

  1. Verify the server installation and ensure the hostname or IPv4 address is resolvable.
  2. Open a web browser and navigate to https://<vStor_hostname_or_IP>:8900.
  3. Log in with the username admin and the set password (default is admin).
  4. Upon first login, you’ll see the following options:
    • Create Pool: Automatically creates a storage pool during initialization.
    • Initialize without Pool: Initializes the server without creating a storage pool.
    • Attempt Config Recovery: Initializes and recovers from a previous configuration.
    • Manual Initialization: Requires SSH access and command-line initialization using vstor system init.
Attention!

You should run vstor system init with a flag --skip_pool to manually create pools after initialization. This option allows you to create a storage pool using advanced redundancy options and a specific list of disks.

Note.

Multipool is enabled by default for all vStor versions. To disable it, run vstor system init with --multipool off flag.

Click Yes to start initialization, which may take several minutes. Once completed, the dashboard will indicate successful initialization. If the Create pool during initialization option was selected, a pool will also be created.