FlexRAID

What is FlexRAID?

FlexRAID is a highly scalable and smart storage system that turns independent hard drives of various sizes, makes, and models into storage pools and storage pools into storage clouds.

Additionally, FlexRAID provides both snapshot and real-time parity data protection with support for RAID4, RAID6, and RAIDX where X is any number of tolerances desired. Parity data protection can be configured at the storage pool level and/or at the storage cloud level.

Furthermore, FlexRAID is not limited to hard disks as it can pool data from all accessible sources including removable media, external storage, network shares, LUNs, disk arrays, etc.

Links

• FlexRAID Basic Host
• FlexRAID WebUI
• Forums

Manual Installation Steps

1. Create web app called flexraid
2. Became root user
3. cd /var/hda/web-apps/flexraid
4. Downloaded the file
5. Unarchived the file and moved it to html
6. cd html
7. chmod +x ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin
8. ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin
9. When prompted for location, I entered /home/<USERNAME>/openegg
10. Then manually edited the .conf file /etc/httpd/conf.d/1000-flexraid.conf
11. Added a line after server lines...RedirectPermanent / http://localhost:8080
12. Restarted httpd....service httpd restart
13. Downloaded the sample init script from the site and modified the variables to match the path /home/<USERNAME>/openegg
14. Started flexraid...service flexraid start

Post Install Questions

• Does Greyhole need to be disabled?
• Does this work with LVM disks?