Welcome to Rockstor

Rockstor (Licensed: FSF Free/Libre & OSI approved) is a Linux & BTRFS-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliance, with Private Cloud capabilities. Rockstor is “Built on openSUSE” and Our “Built on openSUSE” Kiwi-ng created installer is licensed according to the Rockstor “Built on openSUSE” installer License Agreement. We focus on easy-install, setup, and use.

We extend our advanced NAS features, via Docker, to host an ever growing range of easy to install apps we call Rock-ons (Docker Plugins). This in turn moves us nicely into the realms of a private cloud server.

See our Introduction section for a list of features & capabilities: available and planned.

Rockstor can be installed on commodity x86_64 and ARM64 hardware. AArch64 server compatibility relies on Embedded Boot or Server boot standards, e.g. like the recently released Ten64 platform–the designers of which Traverse technologies are valued contributors to our rockstor-core, rockstor-installer, and rockon-registry GitHub repositories. We also have installer profiles for the Raspberry Pi4 and RPi 400 SBCs.

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Features

Below is a summary of all features supported by Rockstor. Features in prod status are production ready whereas beta indicates a feature is not yet ready for prime time. Some unsupported and planned features are also listed.

Feature

status

notes

Web-UI

prod

System management via browser

Web-UI Live Dashboard

prod

Overview of system activity

Online Pool management

prod

Renaming capability planned

Online Share management

prod

Renaming capability planned

Snapshots

prod

Instant btrfs subvol snapshots

Sharing via NFS

prod

Network File System enterprise file access

Sharing via Samba

prod

Also known as CIFS / Samba

Apple Time Machine Backups

beta

Samba options in Rockstor

Secure File Transport Protocol (SFTP)

prod

Secure File Transport Protocol

Asynchronous Share Replication

beta

Rockstor’s Btrfs send/receive wrapper

SSH

prod

Standard bash shell

Tailscale

prod

Config via Services Tailscale

Active Directory (AD)

prod

Uses sssd

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

prod

Uses sssd

Network Information Server (NIS)

prod

Network Information System

NTP Client

prod

System time from NTP server

SNMP

prod

Enterprise monitoring facility

S.M.A.R.T

prod

Disk health information system

IPv4 Network Config via Web-UI

prod

Includes Teaming & Bonding

IPv6 Network Config via Web-UI

planned

Possible at command line

Docker Based Plugin System

prod

We call these Rock-ons

Docker Private Networking

beta

We call these Rocknets

Email Alerts

prod

Via root user email forwarding

Scheduled Tasks

prod

Snapshot Scrub Reboot Shutdown Suspend

Config Backup and Restore

beta

Reinstate config subset. Rock-ons reinstalled

UPS Support via NUT

prod

Configure a UPS from the Web-UI

Shell in Web-UI

prod

Via “Shell In A Box”

SSL Certificate Entry

prod

Add your own cert via Web-UI

Log Manager

prod

View & download system logs

User & Group Management

prod

Can choose if Rockstor managed