vStor 4.12 Documentation
  • 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
    • Configuring vStor Network Settings
    • 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
    • vStor Partnerships
      • Creating Replication Groups
      • Establishing Cross-Version Partnerships
    • Enabling Volume Encryption
    • Immutability in vStor
    • Using GuardMode Scan
    • Using Remote Keystore
  • 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 Multifactor 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
  • Technical Support
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  1. Basic Configuration

Initializing vStor

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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 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. See .

    • Manual Initialization: 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.

  1. 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.

Restoring Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor