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 was selected, a pool will also be created.