Storage Systems

 
     
 
 
 

 

Storage Systems:

Features OS & Storage Manager via browser and supports volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (target and initiator), scheduled snapshots, resource quota, and a single unified interface for share management which makes allocating shares for various network file-system protocols a breeze.


Storage System Product Pages


Some of the features currently available include

  • 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

DOES NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORT iSCSI3 "Persistant Resevation" for clustering