Deploying Catalogic vStor on Physical Appliances

See also.

To deploy Catalogic vStor on virtual environments, see:

• Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for VMware
• Deploying Catalogic vStor virtual appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V

System requirements for Catalogic vStor

For initial deployments of Catalogic vStor, configure your server to meet the following recommended minimum requirements:

• 4 processors
• 32 GB memory

Tip.

For more efficient deduplication, memory should be adjusted based on backup capacity. If enabling deduplication on the pool, the general guideline is 1 GB for every 1 TB of backup data.

• 8 GB of free space in the root partition

Typically, you can improve backup and restore performance using SSD drives. To improve backup performance:

• Configure the pool(s) to use one or more log devices backed by SSD. Specify at least two log devices to create a mirrored log for better redundancy.
• Configure the pool(s) to use a cache device backed by SSD.

See also.

For more details on best practices for hardware configurations, see Hardware Configurations: Best Practices.

Deploying Catalogic vStor on Physical Appliances

To deploy Catalogic vStor on a physical appliance, use the provided ISO image. Follow these steps to deploy Catalogic vStor from the ISO file:

1. Preparation:
   • Prepare a USB flash drive to create bootable media.
2. Creating bootable media:
   • Install Rufus or a similar utility.
   • Download the Catalogic vStor ISO image file from the Catalogic MySupport website.
   • Verify the ISO file’s integrity by comparing its MD5 hash value with the one provided on the website.
3. Using Rufus to create bootable Media:
   • Open Rufus and configure the following settings:
     • Drive Properties:
       • Device: Select your USB flash drive.
       • Boot selection: Choose the downloaded Catalogic vStor ISO file.
       • Persistent partition size: 0 (No persistence).
       • Partition scheme: MBR.
       • Target system: Select BIOS or UEFI.
     • Format Options:
       • Volume label: Use the default name.
       • File system: Select Large FAT32 (Default).
       • Cluster size: Set to 32 kilobytes (Default).
       • Create extended label and icon files: Check this option.
     • Write Modes for ISOhybrid Image:
       • Write mode: Write in ISO Image mode (Recommended).

Attention!

Before proceeding with the installation of Catalogic vStor, ensure that Secure Boot is disabled in your system’s UEFI firmware settings.

4. Installation:
   • Safely eject the USB flash drive from your workstation.
   • Insert the USB flash drive into the target machine.
   • Boot the machine from the USB flash drive. If necessary, access the UEFI configuration to prioritize booting from the USB drive.
   • Follow the on-screen instructions to install Catalogic vStor.

Troubleshooting: Unable to boot from the Catalogic vStor disk image

If the machine fails to boot from the Catalogic vStor disk image, try this workaround:

• Assume the removable media is assigned to drive E:.
• Navigate to E:\EFI\BOOT.
• Delete BOOTX64.EFI and BOOTIA32.EFI.
• Rename grubx64.efi to BOOTX64.EFI and grubia32.efi to BOOTIA32.EFI.
• These steps can be executed as:

cd E:\EFI\BOOT\
mv grubx64.efi BOOTX64.EFI
mv grubia32.efi BOOTIA32.EFI

See also.

To see how to create and administrate storage pools, volumes, and shares in Catalogic vStor Server, see vStor Command Line Interface (CLI) Overview.