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.
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 |
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prod |
System management via browser |
|
Web-UI Live Dashboard |
prod |
Overview of system activity |
Online Pool management |
prod |
Renaming capability planned |
Online Share management |
prod |
Renaming capability planned |
prod |
Instant btrfs subvol snapshots |
|
Sharing via NFS |
prod |
Network File System enterprise file access |
Sharing via Samba |
prod |
Also known as CIFS / Samba |
Apple Time Machine Backups |
beta |
Samba options in Rockstor |
prod |
Secure File Transport Protocol |
|
Asynchronous Share Replication |
beta |
Rockstor’s Btrfs send/receive wrapper |
SSH |
prod |
Standard bash shell |
prod |
Rockstor v4 uses sssd |
|
prod |
Rockstor v4 uses sssd |
|
prod |
Network Information System |
|
NTP Client |
prod |
System time from NTP server |
SNMP |
prod |
Enterprise monitoring facility |
prod |
Disk health information system |
|
IPv4 Network Config via Web-UI |
prod |
Includes Teaming & Bonding |
IPv6 Network Config via Web-UI |
planned |
Possible at command line |
Docker Based Plugin System |
prod |
We call these Rock-ons |
Docker Private Networking |
beta |
We call these Rocknets |
prod |
Via root user email forwarding |
|
prod |
Snapshot Scrub Reboot Shutdown Suspend |
|
beta |
Reinstate config subset. Rock-ons 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 |