The feature request thread!!!
Hello!
This is the feature request thread. Let me start off with some doozies:
Snapshot merging so you can make an active snapshot into a regular, linear logical volume (FC, iscsi, or NAS). This is how it ought to work already. Would make snapshots twice as useful. There's a relatively usable BETA patch of this for LVM2 already. Read more here: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/LVM_Snapshot_Merging
NAS data deduplication: here's a free, open-source project that works on linux here: http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/ But probably nothing will come of this project. Will probably have to wait until btrfs or tux3fs add deduplication. Also, ZFS will add support for deduplication, so maybe you could use ZFS in userland via FUSE? Sounds too cludgy to me.
block-volume deduplication (i.e. iscsi or fibre channel volumes): can be implemented on top of "lessfs" or btrfs in the future, see above.
NAS autofailover: I know this is already in the pipeline.
PLEASE add your own suggestions! And comment on features you'd like to see.
Remote console (SSH) allowed address range
Also, being able to set an address range of "allowed IP's" rather than single IP's would be useful (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24).
Cheers
AS
The feature request thread!!!
Ability to bind the webinterface to a NIC other than the NAS traffic NIC. For example iSCSI traffic is handled by a NIC connected to a storage LAN while management is handled by a NIC connected to the normal LAN.
Han.
Increase support hours @ germany office
Basically to get phone support from Australia involved calling Germany at night which sometimes is apropicate.
But idealy I would like to see the hours for the support engineers increased/or open a Oceanic Support office. I know after speaking to various distributors of Open-E in Australia this is currently a major challenge and impacts local sales.
-Adam
Single Instance Storage for all volume types
Single Instance Storage (SIS) / Deduplication is a becoming a significant issue/marketing point, due to the explosion of data storage/capacity requirements.
This is especially true as the adoption of server (and coming/now desktops) virtualization is now growing into middle/lower-middle tier businesses. If you have 20 virtualized Win2008 servers. Do you really need to use 20 times the disk space to store 20 copies of the same Windows EXEs/DLLs?
A number of SAN solutions offer this feature including; MS Storage Server, Falconstor/Nexxan, NetApp and EMC.
Another nice feature would be
transparent file compression in the NAS.
The processor is hardly working and on-the-fly compression and CRC checks would enable some really tight file stacking...
G
Fast Way of Getting Data off NAS to External Device.
I would like to see a feature where you can connect a device either Hard Drive, USB Hard Drive etc to the NAS and export data from one of the NAS shares directly onto the NTFS or FAT32 formatted drive.
This feature would be extremely useful from a product deployment view when you have to extract 800GB - 900GB of data to a portable device to be shipped out.
- This should be easy to implement, i use other NAS OS's that have similar abilities.
File Manager at Storage Level "QuiXplorer"
I have found this feature to be an extremely useful device on our other NAS devices. File Manager right at the storage level that can do:
* Browsing directories; showing names, file sizes,
file types, modification times and permissions
* Copying, moving and deleting files
* Searching for files and directories
* Uploading and downloading files
* Editing text files
* Creating new files and directories
* Changing file permissions
I have used this feature on so many occasions on the Other OS we use i can't imagine what i would do without it - however DSS does not have this feature and i find the data hard to manage on our DSS devices.
Theres a project out there that these other OS's use http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net/
and i think Open-E should consider implementing this or a similar solution.