# Openfiler Reviews **Vendor:** Openfiler **Category:** [Cloud File Storage Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-file-storage) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Openfiler Openfiler is an operating system that provides file-based network-attached storage and block-based storage area network. ## Openfiler Reviews ### 1. OpenFiler is a good tool for the small organization **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sohail M. | Senior System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Shared storage compatibility with all the os on network is just great, I've deployed this product to many small firms who are not looking into more hardware investment but have there concern about file and storage sharing. This OpeFiler box can be the all for them in 1. **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Well all open source products have their up's and down but the thing I didn't agree to use it for the mid size company is the way it's shared storage work. Software SAN work and attach very easily but for some reason when the source gets down or reboot target storage not connect automatically sometimes, Also I've face the problem on increasing on storage when the size of a LUN increase more then 1 TB consumption it started to show IOPS error and destroy all the data. **Recommendations to others considering Openfiler:** If you are looking to deploy a small size solution for the company who are looking for File sharing, Shared Storage or network backups to be on another devices OpenFiler could be the 1 box solution for them. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes customer ask for the solution but they don't want to bear a resource to manage it like Microsoft Administrator or Linux Administrator to manage their services all the time because no one is more familiar with the Security tools or Linux shell. So I see OpenFiler for the customer who can manage it over the web in few clicks and run their environment easily without acquiring any resource to manage it. Since I've deployed this to the customer I'm having far less Support tickets from customer regarding file sharing server request. ### 2. Usablity of Openfiler **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pinku S. | Asst. System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Web based Management Console and muti-protocols storage supports Easy to Install and configure Best choice for LAB and production environment if you want to opt for Software defined Storage systems We at ESDS also using Openfiler for LAB environment for delivering the solutions to cosumer of the Public Hosting Servers Supports most of the Hardware compatiblity Good transfer rate of SMB protocols Good AD/LDAP support Supports DRBD **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Non-support of ZFS filesystem Non-support of RAID-Z Support **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing of SMB Protocols within the isolated environment with Good speed of transfer rate which is not upto the mark in Windows SMB Share. ### 3. Nice and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** In one of my work place i wanted to setup a cluster and without spending money on actual storage device as it was not customer funded, we were looking for software NAS and then we came to know about openfiler and it worked and we were able to create the test cluster on one SERVER. It was great and easy to use and it helped a lot to provide the training to team. **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** It was nice and sometime performance was issue. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** In one of my work place i wanted to setup a cluster and without spending money on actual storage device as it was not customer funded, we were looking for software NAS and then we came to know about openfiler and it worked and we were able to create the test cluster on one SERVER. It was great and easy to use and it helped a lot to provide the training to team. ### 4. Immediate results. Minimal administration. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miquel Angel P. | Service Manager (Governance IT at CTTI), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Easy to install and configure. Immediate results **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Graphics and statistics can improve. No software updates are available. **Recommendations to others considering Openfiler:** Easy to install and configure. Adaptable to all the scenarios that your environment needs. Immediate results. Minimal administration. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage needs for VmWare. Easily solved. ### 5. Recommended storage solution for both Linux and VMWare. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebeen H. | Head of Network Department, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** The compatibility and the flexibility to use both file based and iSCSI that really helps in the virtualized environment. **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** I had a situation when all data gone missing after reboot and it just vanished hopefully is not going to happen again. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using OF for a file based storage solution NAS with RAID, the main purpose is VOD based solution with rich media content such as movies and TV shows. ### 6. Openfiler is great tool for storage. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsin Saeed C. | Assistant Manager System & Networks, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Top model that describes Easy and user friendly storage os model. Flexibility and best for VMware **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Well, its little bit slow when initiating iscsi targets. **Recommendations to others considering Openfiler:** Make and provide free setup training labs with VMware infra. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Openfiler has no limits, we can make on our old servers to OF. ### 7. Best Opensource Storage Appliance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Openfiler provides a simple way to deploy and manage networked storage. It has simple UI Where we can manage Our Block storage and sharing Storage simultaneously **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** It does not give us update periodically, which is really annoying. if some vurnalibility come in between then it should have to give patches or upgrade its product **Recommendations to others considering Openfiler:** I would recommend this product to who is lover of opensource Product. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically I am using this for My VMware and Cirix Hypervisor as iSCSI Storage server ### 8. Simple and Reliable Software NAS/SAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ismail Shareef M. | AWS DevOps Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Easy to deploy, support multiple protocols, fast engine, and very reliable **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** The GUI is a little too old and lagging sometimes **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Openfiler for my labs and for low-weight production purpose and it has been performing very well ### 9. Great SAN Software based solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Walter N. | Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Simplicity and stability of the product Easy to integrate using iSCSI to almost all systems **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Lack of monitoring and resource utilization More options to create RAID levels and more integration with VMWARE **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We immediately solve or storage problems and reuse our storage capacity from other systems to optimize other applications and servers quick and easy ### 10. Easy to Install and Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Askar I. | Senior Systems Reliability Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** + Installation is pretty easy + Single Windows for NAS and SAN Management + The UI is simple and easy to setup **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** None. This is an Awesome piece of software **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** + Faster deployment for iscsi and NFS based storage + Saves a lot time in lab deployment when compared to manual methods like using isciadm ### 11. My OpenFiler Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Openfiler is the best utility to get an understanding about storage and it can be used for Test/Dev/Prod environments in a smaller environment easily. I have not used it in large environment hence could not comment on that. **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Management interface could be designed better. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it for learning and development environment where I have used it as a low cost affordable alternative to SAN storage ### 12. Cost-effective Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hassan B. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** Cost-effective Storage, Broad Hardware Compatibility and Powerful Management Capabilities. **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** Rich UI requires a stable and fast internet connection. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Networked storage ### 13. Openfiler is very good and stable software to convert PC into NAS. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Openfiler?** free, stable, ISCSI share, network share **What do you dislike about Openfiler?** its got slow sometimes in gui when browsing for volumes and ISCSI targets. **Recommendations to others considering Openfiler:** go for it. **What problems is Openfiler solving and how is that benefiting you?** using it as network attached storage ## Openfiler Discussions - [What is Openfiler used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-openfiler-used-for) - [View Openfiler pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/openfiler/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+08%3A22%3A36+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=11a696f8-7ed3-452d-87d3-8670a5226014&secure%5Btoken%5D=0f7f8591954b5c2e32bd021af6f575886b16b05f9d44a2226c720ae6f56b7177&format=llm_user) ## Openfiler Features **Functionality** - Storage Scaling - Backup Support - File Security - File Organization **Cloud Support** - Service Support - Cloud Transparency - Cloud Migration Support **Automation** - Intelligent Data Management - Workflow Automation ## Top Openfiler Alternatives - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (676 reviews) - [LucidLink](https://www.g2.com/products/lucidlink/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (639 reviews) - [SuiteDash](https://www.g2.com/products/suitedash/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (605 reviews)