Building Open Source Storage For Enterprise

Joel DivekarGM – Information Systems,People Interactive (I) Pvt. Ltd.9th Edition Open Source India,NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru, 14th Oct, 2012

Open Source Storage Projects

FreeNAS

Openfiler

OpenMediaVault

NAS4Free

Introduction of FreeNAS 8.3.0

Open Source NAS based on embedded version of FreeBSD (nanoBSD)

Optimised for network storage, better performance & useability

Preferred media for OS installation is USB flash drive or SATA DOM

Web based administrative GUI

Features of FreeNAS - I

FreeBSD jail-based plugin system & NAS features can be extended using plugin architecture

Supports ZFS version 28

Supports UFS & ZFS volumes

Share data using Appletalk, NFS & SMB protocol

Operation / Administration & Data maintained on physically separate drives

Features of FreeNAS - II

Automated & secure replication of data by rsync / ssh

Automated ZFS snapshots and scrubs

Can integrate with OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory

Z File System (ZFS)

Integrate File System & Volume Management

Data Integrity is the high priority

Designed to continuously check data integrity & do “Self Healing”

Supports Copy-on-Write Transaction

Addresses hardware RAID issues with Data Integrity

Data Backup & Restore

Auto data snapshots (Data at point of time)

Snapshots which is 'Read Only' can be cloned to 'Read Write'

Data can be restored from any Snapshot

Snapshot stores data which is changed since last snapshot

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