Top 15 unRAID Server Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Traditional approaches to personal computing technology place limits on your hardware’s capabilities, forcing you to choose between a desktop, media player, or a server. With unRAID, we can deliver all of these capabilities, at the same time, and on the same system.

1. PA Storage Monitor

PA Storage Monitor PA Storage Monitor shows what you are storing and supports your storage manager tasks. Many rich file reports, including file owner information available.PA Storage Monitor:**Report on file ages, types, owners, duplicates...**Scan and catalog terabytes of file information**Predict when disks will run out of space**Monitor and alert on user and directory......

2. FreeNAS

FreeNAS FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface,......

3. Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer XenServer is a turnkey open source virtualization solution that provides out-of-the box virtualization and cloud computing. XenServer includes the Xen Hypervisor, the enterprise ready XAPI toolstack and integrations for cloud, storage and networking solutions.......

4. bhyve

bhyve bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe) is a type-2 hypervisor that runs FreeBSD 9+, OpenBSD, Linux and MS Window desktop (versions Vista, 7, 8/8.1/8.2 and 10), as well as MS Windows Server (versions 2008/2008R2, 2012/2012R2 and 2016 Technical Preview 2 and 3) guests.It is developed on FreeBSD and......

5. SmartOS

SmartOS SmartOS is a specialized Type 1 Hypervisor platform based on Illumos. It supports two types of virtualization: OS Virtual Machines (Zones): A light-weight virtualization solution offering a complete and secure userland environment on a single global kernel, offering true bare metal performance and all the features Illumos has, namely dynamic......

6. Xen

Xen Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. It is a native (bare-metal) hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.......

7. Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm Docker Swarm is native clustering for Docker. It allows you create and access to a pool of Docker hosts using the full suite of Docker tools. Because Docker Swarm serves the standard Docker API, any tool that already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to......

8. CoreCluster

CoreCluster With the CoreCluster you can create private clouds, like Amazon’s EC2, but based on your own hardware. All what is necessary is some hardware with Ubuntu or Debian operating systems. Users can create theirs own virtual machine instances and manage whole virtual environment, without any hardware reconfiguration. Software supports many......

9. VM manager

VM manager Commercial Linux-based VPS management control panel with full support for KVM and OpenVZ virtualizations. It presents perfect tools for creating virtual machines, providing VPS hosting services and building cloud infrastructure.Free version of VMmanager comes without any features or time limitations but has following resource limits: 2 virtual machines, 5 nodes,......

10. clearVM

clearVM clearVM, formerly Witsbits, enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes......

11. Spoonium

Spoonium Spoonium allows you to package applications and their dependencies into a lightweight, isolated virtual environment called a "container." Containerized ("Spooned") applications can then be run on any Windows machine that has Spoonium installed, no matter the underlying infrastructure. This eliminates installs, conflicts, breaks, and missing dependencies.Spoonium is 100% free for......

12. CloudBacko

CloudBacko CloudBacko can back up your data concurrent or sequential to multiple destinations, including Amazon S3, AWS compatible storages, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, China Telecom eYun, FTP / SFTP sites, external USB drive, and local / mapped network drives. It is a cloud / online......

13. Nutanix

Nutanix Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like......

14. Apache Geronimo

Apache Geronimo A Java EE 5-certified application server for web and enterprise applications based on Suns Java EE platform specification. The goal of the Geronimo project is to produce a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that meet the needs of developers and system......

15. JOnAS

JOnAS JOnAS is a leading edge Java EE 5 certified Open Source OSGi Enterprise Server by OW2. The License used by JOnAS is the LGPL. The OW2 development community includes many academic institutes (Grenoble University, INRIA, LIFL, Peking University, UPM, ...) working with JOnAS; this fastens technology transfers and make JOnAS......