Welcome to Rockstor

Rockstor is an Open Source GPLv2 + Linux & BTRFS based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliance, with Private Cloud capabilities. Rockstor 4 is “Built on openSUSE” while our near legacy 3 and older versions used CentOS 7 with newer elrepo kernels. Our focus is on easy install and use.

We extend our advanced NAS features, via docker, to host an ever growing range of easy to install apps we call Rock-ons (Docker Plugins). This in turn moves us nicely into the realms of a private cloud server.

See our Introduction section for a list of features & capabilities: available and planned.

Rockstor 4 can be installed on commodity x86_64 and ARM64 hardware. AArch64 server compatibility relies on Embedded Boot or Server boot standards, e.g. like the recently released Ten64 platform. The designers of which Traverse technologies are a valued contributor to our rockstor-core, rockstor-installer, and rockon-registry GitHub repositories. We also have installer profiles for the Raspberry Pi4 and RPi 400 SBCs: the latter requires at least a Leap 15.3 profile.

• Introduction
• Installation
• User Interface
• Data loss Prevention and Recovery in Rockstor
• UPS / NUT Setup
• How-tos & Guides
• Community Contributions
• Product FAQ
• Support

Features

Below is a summary of all features supported by Rockstor. Features in prod status are production ready where as beta indicates a features is not yet ready for prime time. Some unsupported and planned features are also listed.

Feature	status	notes
Web-UI	prod	System management via browser
Web-UI Live Dashboard	prod	Overview of system activity
Online Pool management	prod	Re-naming capability planned
Online Share management	prod	Re-naming capability planned
Snapshots	prod	Instant btrfs subvol snapshots
Sharing via NFS	prod	Network File-System cross platform enterprise file access
Sharing via Samba	prod	Also known as CIFS / Samba
Apple Time Machine Backups	beta	Samba options in Rockstor v4
Secure File Transport Protocol (SFTP)	prod	Secure File Transport Protocol
Asynchronous Share Replication	beta	Replicate btrfs subvols between multiple Rockstor appliances
SSH	prod	Standard bash shell
Active Directory (AD)	prod	Rockstor v4 uses sssd
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)	prod	Rockstor v4 uses sssd
Network Information Server (NIS)	prod	Network Information System
NTP Client	prod	System time from NTP server
SNMP	prod	Enterprise monitoring facility
S.M.A.R.T	prod	Dsk health information system
IPv4 Network Config via Web-UI / IPv6	prod / planned	Includes Teaming & Bonding / IPv6 currently disabled at boot
Docker Based Plugin System	prod	We call these Rock-ons
Docker Private Networking	beta	We call these Rocknets, v4 only
Email Alerts	prod	Via root user email forwarding
Scheduled Tasks	prod / beta	Snapshots & Scrubs / Reboot, Shutdown & Suspend.
Config Backup and Restore	beta	Reinstate subset of config. Rock-ons auto reinstalled.
UPS Support via NUT	prod	Configure a UPS from the Web-UI
Shell in Web-UI	prod	Via “Shell In A Box”
SSL Certificate Entry	prod	Add your own cert via Web-UI
Log Manager	prod	View & download system logs
User & Group Management	prod	Can choose if Rockstor managed