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Table of contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................3

2 Acronis Storage basics ......................................................................................................3

3 Acronis Storage redundancy modes ..................................................................................3

4 Server roles .....................................................................................................................5

4.1 Metadata Server (MDS) ............................................................................................................. 5

4.2 Storage Server (STS) ................................................................................................................... 5

4.3 Front-end Server (FES) ............................................................................................................... 5

5 Requirements ..................................................................................................................6

5.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 6

5.2 Network requirements .............................................................................................................. 8

5.3 Software requirements .............................................................................................................. 9

6 Deployment ................................................................................................................... 10

6.1 Initial node deployment...........................................................................................................10

6.2 Booting up other nodes ...........................................................................................................11

6.2.1 Booting from Expansion ISO ......................................................................................................................... 12

6.2.2 Booting from PXE Server............................................................................................................................... 12

6.3 Roles assignment .....................................................................................................................13

7 Integration with Acronis Backup Cloud ........................................................................... 14

8 Updating Acronis Storage ............................................................................................... 15

9 Changing the redundancy mode ..................................................................................... 16

9.1 Evaluation mode to Express mode ..........................................................................................16

9.2 Express mode to Advanced mode ...........................................................................................16

9.2.1 Booting the physical servers ......................................................................................................................... 16

9.2.2 Migrating the MDS nodes ............................................................................................................................. 17

9.2.3 Migrating the FES nodes ............................................................................................................................... 18

9.2.4 Selecting the Advanced mode ...................................................................................................................... 19