Nexenta Reviews

Openfiler transforms an industry-standard x86_64 architecture system to a full-fledged NAS/SAN appliance/IP storage gateway. It provides storage administrators with a powerful tool for managing their growing storage needs. Openfiler allows storage administrators to make the most of system performance and storage resources when allocating or managing storage in multi-platform networks. Openfiler offers key features like iSCSI target to virtualization, Fibre Channel target target support, block-level replication, and High Availability that are essential for any business-critical storage environment. Openfiler is the first commercially viable Open Source NAS/SAN solution. It has a wealth of storage management capabilities and features that address specific storage management problems. It can be installed on standard server hardware, eliminating the need to purchase expensive storage systems.

Information stored in a storage medium without a file system would be one big body of data, with no way to distinguish between the pieces that are complete and those that are not. The information can be easily separated and given a name to each piece. Each group of data is named a "file" after the way that paper-based information systems are named. A "file system" is the structure and logic rules that manage the information groups and their names. Network-attached storage is a file-level storage server that connects to a computer network to provide data access to a heterogeneous client group. NAS is specialized in serving files by its hardware, software or configuration. It is often made as a computer appliance, a specialised computer that is purpose-built.