Rockstor is a NAS solution able to meet the demand for both home users and businesses. It offers many robust and innovative features making Rockstor an excellent choice for the first-time NAS users. Among these include their open source BTRFS storage, fast vertical scaling features, impressive monitoring dashboard, instant cloning abilities, and more. Moreover, they also offer plenty of in-depth, quality documentation in their site to help people getting up and running in no time.
Features of Rockstor:
- Web User Interface – provided with a simple GUI installer for quick installation on your commodity hardware or hypervisor (BTRFS)
- File System – provides Bitrot protection, checksums, compression and other advanced filsystem(BTRFS) features.
- Administration
- Simple GUI installer and secure browser based management.
- Resource monitoring with customizable Dashboard and SNMP
- Backup / Snapshot
- Copy-on-write(CoW) Snapshots of Shares on demand and on schedule.
- Instant and efficient Clones of Shares and Snapshots.
- File backup with Rsync, Apple Time Machine and Windows Backup
- File Sharing – File sharing and access from Linux, Mac, Windows and Mobile devices
- Disaster Recovery – Disaster recovery is made easy by Rockstor to Rockstor replication.
- Plug-ins – Apps(Rock-ons) for media streaming, backups, cloud storage and more
- Scalability – Fast and online vertical capacity scaling.
- System Integration – REST API for application developers
