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Building open source storage for enterprise
1. Building Open Source Storage For Enterprise
Joel Divekar
GM – Information Systems,
People Interactive (I) Pvt. Ltd.
9th Edition Open Source India,
NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru, 14th Oct, 2012
3. Introduction of FreeNAS 8.3.0
Open Source NAS based on embedded version of FreeBSD
(nanoBSD)
Optimised for network storage, better performance &
useability
Preferred media for OS installation is USB flash drive or SATA
DOM
Web based administrative GUI
4. Features of FreeNAS - I
FreeBSD jail-based plugin system & NAS features can be
extended using plugin architecture
Supports ZFS version 28
Supports UFS & ZFS volumes
Share data using Appletalk, NFS & SMB protocol
Operation / Administration & Data maintained on physically
separate drives
5. Features of FreeNAS - II
Automated & secure replication of data by rsync / ssh
Automated ZFS snapshots and scrubs
Can integrate with OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory
6. Z File System (ZFS)
Integrate File System & Volume Management
Data Integrity is the high priority
Designed to continuously check data integrity & do “Self Healing”
Supports Copy-on-Write Transaction
Addresses hardware RAID issues with Data Integrity
7. Data Backup & Restore
Auto data snapshots (Data at point of time)
Snapshots which is 'Read Only' can be cloned to 'Read Write'
Data can be restored from any Snapshot
Snapshot stores data which is changed since last snapshot