Openfiler
I’ve been revisiting an old friend this week… Openfiler.
I built an Openfiler iSCSI box about 2 years ago, to support an ESX Server implementation. It worked well, and we left it to it.
Openfiler is now at version 2.3 and I’ve rediscovered what a brilliant SAN/NAS solution it really is!
It’s not only got iSCSI, but there’s also SMB / CIFS, Software RAID, Quotas, Snapshots and you can even join your Active Directory domain. They’ve also cleaned up the interface to make it even easier to use.
The software is free to use and distribute, and there is an excellent Administrator guide (even if there are a few spelling mistakes) to download for about £38.00. The guide is a useful reference that gives good coverage of the protocols at work here and is certainly worth the donation to this awesome project.
This is an excellent free open source SAN that I’ll be using for all my future deployments!
Thank you Openfiler!!
