Below is a high level overview of Rockstor. Detailed documentation is available here.
RockStor is a Linux based operating system tailored specifically for Storage usecases. It combines our own free software stack on top of technologies including the Linux kernel, BTRFS filesystem and SystemTap to create a uniquely compelling storage platform.
RockStor is a File Storage solution and supports file sharing protocols such as NFS, Samba/CIFS, and SFTP.
RockStor is a software appliance and can be installed on any hardware or virtual machine satisfying minimum requirements
Rockstor supports advanced features for users of all types ranging from home users to large enterprises.
- Snapshots, Fast Cloning and Thin provisioning of Shares
- Dynamic disk and Pool(volume) management
- Efficient replication of Shares over WAN
- Feature rich and easy to use Web UI for management
- Interactive and scriptable CLI
- RESTful API for complete programmability
- Plugin ready (comes with a backup plugin)
Rockstor is Free and Open Source software and will remain so. You can use it free of charge and buy commercial support when you need it. Join our community!
Rockstor comes with a slick Web-ui using which you can manage your Storage operations very easily.
- Browser based UI
- Realtime monitoring using the dashboard
- Customizable dashboard with widgets of your choice
- Multiple dashboard profiles
- Losely coupled multi appliance management from the UI
RockStor's pluggable Smart Probe mechanism, and a growing list of smart probes provide detailed on-demand information about the various aspects of your storage infrastructure.
Analyse your NFS workloads with real-time server side information about NFS calls, clients and users accessing the storage system over NFS.
Rockstor exposes an application container where new functionality can be added as plugins. It comes with a Backup plugin to replicate another Filer with Rockstor.
Rockstor's RESTful API allows automated storage provisioning and management, using which you can easily integrate into your Cloud environment.