Free Storage for SMB's

 I have seen many Small and Medium enterprises going for very expensive storage boxes as they get fascinated by their skill-full sales persons, Here I want to highlight one of the free storage software which you can compare to your expensive storage boxes and you will be surprised to see that everything what your expensive storage can give even Openfiler offers the same with no cost.You can use openfiler for testing few of your testing and also in POC's,  I am NOT here to market Openfiler but I just want to be a helping hand to few of the SMB's who really need to save some bucks for their growth and needs some really high-end features.

 Openfiler Features..

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.

The following are just some of the features currently available (unless indicated otherwise) in Openfiler.

• 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

System Requirements 

Openfiler is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit industry standard server hardware. It can also be installed in a virtual machine environment as a guest OS in Xen, Virtual Iron and VMware.For production deployment in either virtualized or bare-metal configuration, its recommend 64-bit Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron architecture processors for best performance. Future releases of Openfiler may only support 64-bit processors therefore they are highly recommended for new Openfiler installations.

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Ref: http://www.openfiler.com/about

All the Best ........ :)
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