Homelab Storage Software
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
There are a multitude of storage software options available, some of which are open source solutions designed specifically for small storage platforms, and others are simply free versions or even simulators of full vendor products.
Storage Software[edit | edit source]
| Type | Block | File | Object | Vendor | Software Name & External Link | Limits | Notes | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | ✔ | ✔ | FreeNAS | FreeNAS | More | |||
| Open Source | ✔ | ✔ | Openfiler | Openfiler | More | |||
| Simulator | ✔ | NetApp | Data ONTAP simulator | 180GB | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | ✔ | EMC | vVNX | Non-prod only | More | ||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | ✔ | EMC | vVNX with VVol support | Non-prod only | More | ||
| Simulator | ✔ | EMC | Isilon Simulator | Non-prod only | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | EMC | IsilonSD Edge | Non-prod only | Not sure if standalone? | More | ||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | EMC | ViPR | Non-prod only | More | |
| Free Restricted | ✔ | EMC | Data Domain VE | 0.5TB of replication | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | EMC | ECS Object storage | Non-prod only | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | ✔ | Nexenta | NexentaStor Community Edition | 18TB RAW limit | More | ||
| Open Source | ✔ | Ceph | Ceph | Also provides proprietary POSIX file and block storage | More | |||
| Open Source | ✔ | Astersmith, LLC | ESOS | More | ||||
| Licensed | ✔ | ✔ | Microsoft | Windows File Services & Storage Spaces |
Can provide iSCSI target, SMB or NFS (up to 4.1) Included with Windows Standard Free if you use 180 day trial |
More | ||
| ✔ | ✔ | XPEnology | XPEnology | Allows you to run the Synology DSM OS on almost any other hardware! | More | |||
| HCI / Hyperconverged and Virtual SAN solutions | ||||||||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | EMC | ScaleIO | Non-prod only | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | StarWind | Virtual SAN® Free | Minimum of 2 nodes required | More | |||
| Free Restricted | ✔ | HPE | StorVirtual VSA | 1TB | Requires that you have bought an Intel Xeon CPU, but from any vendor | More | ||
| Licensed | ✔ | VMware | VSAN | Included in VMware's EVALExperience offer | More | |||