Failover Storage Cluster

Openfiler Features

Powerful block storage virtualization

• Full iSCSI target support, with support for virtual iSCSI targets for optimal division of storage
• Extensive volume and physical storage management support
• Support for large block devices
• Full software RAID management support
• Support for multiple volume groups for optimal storage allocation
• Online volume size and overlying filesystem expansion
• Point-in-time snapshots support with scheduling
• Volume usage reporting
• Synchronous / asynchronous volume migration & replication (manual setup necessary currently)
• iSCSI initiator (manual setup necessary currently)

Extensive share management features

• Support for multiple shares per volume
• Multi-level share directory tree
• Multi-group based access control on a per-share basis
• Multi-host/network based access control on a per-share basis
• Per-share service activation (NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV, FTP with read/write controls)
• Support for auto-created SMB home directories
• Support for SMB/CIFS "shadow copy" feature for snapshot volumes
• Support for public/guest shares

Accounts management

• Authentication using Pluggable Authentication Modules, configured from the web-interface
• NIS, LDAP, Hesiod, Active Directory (native and mixed modes), NT4 domain controller
• Guest/public account support

Quota / resource allocation

• Per-volume group-quota management for space and files
• Per-volume user-quota management for space and files
• Per-volume guest-quota management for space and files
• User and group templates support for quota allocation

Other features

• UPS management support
• Built-in SSH client Java applet

Full industry-standard protocol suite

• CIFS/SMB support for Microsoft Windows-based clients
• NFSv3 support for all UNIX clients with support for ACL protocol extensions
• NFSv4 support (testing)
• FTP support
• WebDAV and HTTP 1.1 support
• Linux distribution back-end for any other customizations