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 |
|---|---|---|
Online pool management |
beta |
|
Online share management |
beta |
|
CoW snapshots |
beta |
|
sharing via NFS(v3 and v4) |
prod |
Network File System cross platform enterprise file access |
sharing via SMB |
beta |
also known as CIFS / Samba |
Time Machine backups |
beta |
via Samba exports |
WebDAV |
planned |
|
SFTP |
beta |
Secure File Transport Protocol |
Asynchronous share replication |
beta |
replicate shares between multiple Rockstor appliances |
WebUI |
prod |
efficient management through Chrome browser |
SSH |
prod |
standard bash shell |
RESTful API |
prod |
integrate applications with Rockstor |
Active directory |
beta |
|
LDAP |
prod |
Lightweight Directory Access |
NIS |
prod |
Network Information System |
NTP client |
prod |
set system time from NTP server |
SNMP |
beta |
enterprise monitoring facility |
S.M.A.R.T |
beta |
disk health information system |
Docker based Plugin system |
beta |
We call these Rock-ons |
Critical event alerts |
beta |
via email notification system |
Scheduled tasks |
beta |
snapshots and scrubs |
Config Backup and Restore |
beta |
for recovery / migration use |
UPS support via NUT |
beta |
Configure a UPS from the GUI |
