vStor 4.11
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  • Welcome to vStor!
  • Introduction
  • Installation
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor on Physical Appliances
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for VMware
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V
    • Required Ports for Catalogic vStor
    • Updating Catalogic vStor
  • Quick Start
    • Catalogic vStor for VMware
    • Catalogic vStor for Hyper-V
  • Basic Configuration
    • Initializing vStor
    • Adding Catalogic vStor Node to Catalogic DPX
      • Using vStor API Keys with Catalogic DPX
    • Configuring vStor System Settings
      • Basic System Configuration
      • Security and Network
      • Data Management and Optimization
      • System Monitoring and Maintenance
    • Configuring Network Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Backing up Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Restoring Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
  • Storage Management
    • Adding Disks
    • Managing Storage Pools
    • Managing Volumes
      • Migrating Volumes
      • Creating Volume Snapshots
      • Using vStor Autosnapshot
    • ZFS Compression and Deduplication
    • Managing Shares
    • Managing Hosts for LUN Volumes
    • Using vStor Snapshot Explorer
  • Data Protection
    • Catalogic vStor Backup and Recovery
    • Creating vStor Partnerships
      • Creating Replication Groups
      • Establishing Cross-Version Partnerships
    • Enabling Volume Encryption
    • Immutability in vStor
    • Using GuardMode Scan
  • Advanced Configuration
    • Using Multipath Storage
    • Managing Certificates
    • Adding Encryption URLs
    • Managing MinIO Buckets
    • Assigning an E-mail to a vStor Account
    • Managing vStor User Accounts
    • Using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
  • vStor Command Line Interface
    • Catalogic vStor Server CLI Overview
  • Best Practices
    • Hardware Configurations: Best Practices
    • Data Backup: Best Practices
    • Data Archiving: Best Practices
    • Backup Storage: Best Practices
    • Frequently Asked Questions: Best Practices
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  1. Basic Configuration

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.

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