Open Storage Server (OSS)

• Intro
• Components
• Features
• Release
• Screenshots

Introduction

Open Storage Server provides block based virtualized SAN storage for network clients. The platform is unique in that it supports any combination of IP, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand network fabrics. OSS supports both your current and future network fabric without having to change your storage hardware. OSS is designed to dramatically simplify the creation and ongoing management of SANs.

File based storage is also supported with NFS and GlusterFS support.

Features include:

• Completely free of license fees
• Web based control panel makes SAN management very easy
• Support for Linux, Windows and VMware clients
• iSCSI support over 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet including multiple ports
• Fibre Channel support for 4 and 8 Gigabit including multiple ports
• SRP support over 20 and 40 Gigabit InfiniBand for extreme performance
• Group based security
• Thin provisioning
• NFS support
• GlusterFS support
• Volume replication between physical servers