Openfiler 2.1

Openfiler is a intuitive, powerful browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Openfiler sits atop of CentOS Linux (which is derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor). It is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source.
File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5.
Openfiler includes support for 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.
Main 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
- Open source provides you the power to modify and deploy software if you want to do so
Enhancements:
- Updated to kernel 2.6.17. iSCSI CHAP authentication has been added.
- OpenLDAP, Bacula, rsnapshot, and open-iscsi tools have been added.
- Hardware support has been added.
- ATA-Over-Ethernet support (initiator) has been added.
- SUpport for JFS, XFS, and Reiserfs has been added.