Openfiler的安装和配置

Openfiler 由rPath Linux驱动，它是一个开源并免费网络存储管理程序，可以在单一框架中提供基于文件的网络连接存储 (NAS) 和基于块的存储区域网 (SAN)。Openfiler 支持 CIFS、NFS、HTTP/DAV 和 FTP等协议的Server搭建。

官网地址：http://www.openfiler.com

Openfiler converts an industry standard x86_64 architecture system into a full-fledged NAS/SAN appliance or IP storage gateway and provides storage administrators with a powerful tool to cope with burgeoning storage needs.

Openfiler ensures that storage administrators are able to make the best use of system performance and storage capacity resources when allocating and managing storage in a multi-platform network.

Openfiler provides key features such as iSCSI target for virtualization, Fibre Channel target support, block level replication and High Availabilty that are the mainstay of any business critical storage environment.

Openfiler addresses all the key data storage concerns:

Reliability - Openfiler supports both software and hardware RAID with monitoring and alert facilities; volume snapshot and recovery
Availability - Openfiler supports active/passive high availability clustering, MPIO, and block level replication
Performance - Linux 2.6 kernel supports the latest CPU, networking and storage hardware
Scalability - filesystem scalability to 60TB+, online filesystem and volume growth support

Deployment Scenarios

The range of storage networking protocols provided by Openfiler makes it an excellent choice for several deployment scenarios:

storage area networking	network attached storage
IP Storage Gateway Disk-to-disk Backup Video Surveillance Oracle 10g raw volume Virtual Machine migration Continuous Data Protection	Heterogeneous File Sharing Exchange Server backend Virtual Machine storage backend Network User home directories Media archiving