SAN/NAS – 10 FREE STORAGE APPLIANCES

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Openfiler

Openfiler is one of the most reliable SAN/NAS appliance which runs on Linux Operating system.

Product Highlights:
1.Unified storage: NAS/SAN
2.iSCSI target functionality
3.CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP Protocols
4.RAID 0,1,5,6,10 support
5.Bare metal or virtualization installation
6.8TB+ Journaled filesystems
7.Filesystem Access Control Lists
8.Point In Time Copy (snapshots) support
9.Dynamic volume manager
10.Powerful web-based management
11.Block level remote replication
12.High Availability clustering

FreeNAS

FreeNAS is very light weight SAN/NAS
appliance which is based on Free BSD.It uses ZFS in the backend.

Product Highlights:
1.Replication
2.Data Protection
3.Encryption
4.Snapshots (ZFS based)
5.File Sharing (FTP,NFS,AFP,SMB/CIFS)
6.Web User Interface
7.Support Plugins

OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault is the NAS appliance
based on Debian Linux.

Product Highlights:
1.Easy system updates via Debian package management.
2.Scheduled jobs
3.Plugins-LVM,LDAP,AFP,Antivirus
4.Link aggregation
5.EXT3/EXT4/XFS/JFS filesystem support
6.Software RAID JBOD/0/1/5/6
7.Quota (per volume)
8.Monitoring-Syslog
9.SNMP (v1/2c/3) (read-only)
10.RSync/NFS/SMB-CIFS/FTP/TFTP

Open-E DSS

Open-E DSS V7 is a fully featured NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network) software platform. NAS offers support for multiple file protocols which enable you to build cross-platform solutions and SAN offers iSCSI Target and Fibre Channel Target functionalities.

Product Highlights:
1.Active-Active Failover (Feature Pack)
2.Active-Passive Failover
3.Full Hyper-V Cluster Support
4.Volume Replication
5.Snapshots
6.Continuous Data Protection
7.Storage Virtualization
8.VMware Ready and Citrix Ready

     NASLite

NASLite-2 provides NAS services to Windows, Apple OSX, UNIX and other clients via SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC protocols simultaneously.

Product Highlights:
1.HTML-based status report pages
2.Extremely compact in size (Runs in a 16MB RAM Disk)
3.Minimal hardware requirements
4.Based on the Linux 2.6 Kernel
5.S.M.A.R.T. support
6.Remote NFS volumes re-export
7.Support for IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB and FireWire connected fixed disk drives
8.SMB/CIFS, NFS, AFP, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC exported file systems
9.Remote administration through Telnet
10.Dependable hardware RAID card support

NexentaStor

NexentaStor is a fully featured SAN/NAS appliance which is based ZFS filesystem.This can be implement in Cisco UCS as well.

Product Highlights:
1.Supports Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
2.HA Cluster Plug-in
3.Data Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity using ZFS features
4.Uses ZFS Snapshots and Replication
5.Auto-Tiered Storage
6.Supports ZFS Copy-on-Write, Checksums, and Consistency

NAPP-IT

NAPP-IT also based ZFS which can be installed on standard hardware’s.

Product Highlights:
1.WEB-MANAGED Interface
2.Pre-Install USB Stick
3.Free End User Edition
4.Supports Plugins

ZFS-GURU

ZFSguru is SAN/NAS appliance which is specially designed for reliable data storage. ZFSguru is based on FreeBSD, an advanced UNIX operating system.

Product Highlights:
1.Available in LIVE CD
2.sector size override feature
3.Enhance the data security
4.Advanced Sharing
5.Easily upgrade the web-interface

Starwind

Starwind is a software which can be used to convert winodws operating system as SAN/NAS appliance.Its manily targeting VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix.

Product Highlights:
1.Thin provisioning
2.High speed caching
3.Global deduplication
4.CDP & Snapshots
5.High Availability
6.Unlimited storage capacity for a single-node device
7.Seamless integration with VM Backup solutions

FalconStor NSS

Falconstor is a scalable, highly available solution that enables storage virtualization and business continuity in heterogeneous environments.

Product Highlights:
1.Open Architecture
2.Automated DR with RecoverTrac Technology
3.Advanced Mirroring
4.Complete Data Mobility
5.Thin Provisioning
6.Any-to-any Data Replication
7.WAN-optimized Replication
8.P2V Recovery
9.Accelerate Backup to Tape
10.VMWARE & Hyper-V support