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 is resolvable or the IPv4 address is reachable.
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 will see the initialization screen with the following options:\

• Create pool during initialization: Automatically creates a storage pool during initialization.
• Initialize without creating pool: Initializes the server without creating a storage pool. The user will need to create a pool at a later stage.
• Attempt config recovery: Initializes and recovers from a previous configuration.
  See Restoring Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor.
• Recover from another vStor: Initializes and recovers from a configuration stored on another accessible vStor. See Restoring Configuration Settings from Another vStor.
• Initialize manually: Requires SSH access and command-line initialization using vstor system init.

Attention!

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.

5. 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.