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.

1. 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 Catalogic vStor Server Command Line Interface (CLI) Overview.