Introduction

Welcome to eEKAS – a next-generation, Ceph-based storage operating system designed for modern enterprise and cloud-native environments. Engineered tofor providescalability, scalable, high-performance, and highlycontinuous available storage,availability, eEKAS simplifiesdelivers theunified managementblock, offile, complexand object storage infrastructureswithin a single, integrated platform, managed through an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).

WitheEKAS itsintroduces a unique architecture,and eEKASflexible enablesarchitecture seamlessbased on IP Groups for block and file services. IP Groups enable logical grouping and allocationdynamic assignment of network and storage resources using IP Groups. These IP Groups serve as flexible containers forto services such as SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF,oF. allowingThese formovable service endpoints allow precise control,workload load distribution, andplacement, efficient resource utilization. Each IP Group can contain multiple IP addressesutilization, and canseamless befailover dynamicallyacross reassignednodes betweenin the cluster.

For object storage, eEKAS provides a fully integrated S3-compatible service designed for high availability and balanced I/O performance across the storage cluster. Client connections are transparently distributed across available nodes, makingensuring optimal throughput, efficient use of system resources, and uninterrupted access even during node maintenance or failure.

The S3 service in eEKAS fully implements the standard Amazon S3 API and is compatible with common S3 tools and workflows, including the AWS S3 CLI and other S3-compatible clients. This makes eEKAS an ideal solutionon-premises S3 target for environmentsbackups, requiringarchiving, highcloud-native availabilityapplications, and faulthybrid tolerance.cloud scenarios, without introducing vendor lock-in.

In the event of hardware or node failure, eEKAS ensuresautomatically businessmaintains continuityservice availability by automaticallyredistributing transferring IP Groupsworkloads and theirclient associatedaccess servicesacross toremaining anothernodes. node within the cluster. This failover capability, combinedCombined with Ceph’s robustdistributed, distributedself-healing storage backend, guaranteesthis architecture ensures data integrityintegrity, operational resilience, and systemconsistent resilienceservice levels without manual intervention.

Whether youdeployed are deployingas a scalable storage backbone for virtualization, a robusthigh-performance file server,and block storage platform, or an enterprise-grade S3-compatible backup target,and object storage system, eEKAS offersdelivers the reliability, flexibility, and ease of usesimplicity required to meetby today’s demanding IT environments.

This guide will walk you through the installation, configuration, and managementongoing operation of eEKAS, helpingenabling you maximizeto thedesign, potentialdeploy, ofand yourscale a modern storage infrastructure with confidence.