Rockstor Storage Servers

Rockstor

Rockstor is a great choice of storage software to run on your Cyberstore Storage Appliance. While not as big a name as some of the other options in the market, Rockstor is one of best performing and most adaptable storage software solutions on the market. There are a number of advantages you get that make Rockstor a great choice, one of the biggest being the ease of use.

Features

You can manage your Broadberry CyberStore storage applaice using Rockstor's very simple web browser GUI from where you can perform a number of management tasks including scheduling snapshots, resizing volumes, replicating shares and a lot more. Common and popular NAS protocols like NFS, SFTP, Samba and AFP are supported by default.  

If you decide to configure your CyberStore storage appliance with RockStor, you have the option of having a qualified Broadberry engineer install and configure it for you, or if you prefer you can do it yourself via a Linux ISO file and straightforward GUI installer. Installation is quick and once its completed, you can do all your management from a web browser. The interface has a number of different features to help you like guides, wizards and tooltips. Its simple design makes it great at managing even complicated storage environments. It also allows you either manually take snapshots or to schedule them to automatically happen periodically all from the web-ui.

Rockstors file system BTRFS provides a number of advanced features. These include data protection, self-healing and compression.

Traditional NAS Server

Rockstor is one of the first Linux, BTRFS based NAS distributions that aids users in creating and maintaining a NAS server with very little effort. Maintenance is done completely through the web user interface, which is simple to use and doesn't require you to be any kind of Linux expert.

Your Cloud Server

Rockstor enables you to create your own personal cloud server. It severely reduces the cost of storing data, especially if you are storing huge amounts.

You don't have to be around any physical hardware. You can simply access your data from wherever you are, whether you're on your local network or not. All you need is a device and an internet connection and you can access the huge amounts of data that can be stored of your personal cloud server. Moving data between the cloud, your devices and your CyberStore storage appliance wunning Rockstar storage software is a breeze and onceyour data's in the cloud you're protected from physical theft and loss of data through misplacing physical storage. You can directly manage your privacy and your performance options and enjoy effective capacity scaling.

Cost Control

Rockstor is open source and is freely distributed. You can enjoy complete control over the TCO of your software, as you will be able to make installation decisions with your desired requirements in mind. Its rare that there would be any factor affecting performance and cost that would be outside your own control. You decide how to balance performance with costs while finding the perfect ratio for your needs. Performance and capacity are also scalable at any time.

Replication

Data can be very efficiently replicated from one instance to another. If there is another storage appliance running Rockstor at a different location, key data can be simply backed up to it and kept safe. Moving data between remote offices is enabled and you are able to enjoy quick access to any replicated data.

Custom Solutions

Rockstor enables you to quick build your own custom storage platform and supports a wide range of commodity hardware, which is why you'll get full compatibility with the Broadberry CyberStore appliance. You can use its APIs to provision resources and you can customise BTRFS to your needs.

Open Source

Rockstor is an open source software, which is a huge factor in how great the community around it is. There are a lot of great benefits of using software with such a strong community around it. If you ever have any issues you can get a lot of support as you have a large group of experienced and technically minded people who are available to help you and advise you for free.

As its open source software, you won't have to worry about vendor locking as well as ensuring the code is higher quality as its visible to everyone and is customisable to better fit your exact requirements.

Rock-Ons

Your Rockstor experience can be enhanced even further through the use of plugins. These plugins, known as 'rock-ons', can greatly increase the capabilities of your system. They are stored in the rockon-registry, and there are a number of choices to pick from.