Openfiler is a storage operating system made of standard Linux 2.6 kernel to support SAN and NAS appliance.It is also licensed under GPL license,hence it can be downloaded free of cost and use the same for testing as well as in production environments.Here in this post I have deployed Openfiler in vmware to learn more about storage technology and for testing.
1.Open source version released with Standard features.
2.Commercial version released with Advanced features.(Availed with two types of subscriptions SME and Enterprise)
Openfiler also supports software and Hardware RAID with various file systems available in Linux market today Ext3,XFS,JFS and ReiserFS.
Storage spaces are exported via File level and Block level protocols.
File level protocols includes NFS,CIFS,HTTP/DAV and FTP.
Block level based protocols includes iSCSI and Fibre channel.
Storage can be accessed and configured through intuitive browser based configuration utility.
1.Fibre channel target
2.High availability(HA)
3.Block level replication(includes WAN)
4.iSCSI target for Virtulization
5.Remote Disaster Recovery storage
6.Snapshot management
Openfiler is a Free storage Operating system available in market to test and deploy SAN and NAS appliances.In the below video we will see how to install openfiler in a vmware workstation.
Here I have used 32-bit version.You can also make use of the 64-bit latest version available in openfiler website to test the deployment and configuration.
Two versions are available in Openfiler
1.Open source version released with Standard features.
2.Commercial version released with Advanced features.(Availed with two types of subscriptions SME and Enterprise)
Openfiler also supports software and Hardware RAID with various file systems available in Linux market today Ext3,XFS,JFS and ReiserFS.
Storage spaces are exported via File level and Block level protocols.
File level protocols includes NFS,CIFS,HTTP/DAV and FTP.
Block level based protocols includes iSCSI and Fibre channel.
Storage can be accessed and configured through intuitive browser based configuration utility.
Advanced features available in commercial version are ,
1.Fibre channel target
2.High availability(HA)
3.Block level replication(includes WAN)
4.iSCSI target for Virtulization
5.Remote Disaster Recovery storage
6.Snapshot management
Openfiler is a Free storage Operating system available in market to test and deploy SAN and NAS appliances.In the below video we will see how to install openfiler in a vmware workstation.
Here I have used 32-bit version.You can also make use of the 64-bit latest version available in openfiler website to test the deployment and configuration.