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Vitastor is currently a pre-release and it still misses some important features.
However, the following is implemented:

- Basic part: highly-available block storage with symmetric clustering and no SPOF
- Performance ;-D
- Multiple redundancy schemes: Replication, XOR n+1, Reed-Solomon erasure codes
  based on jerasure library with any number of data and parity drives in a group
- Configuration via simple JSON data structures in etcd (parameters, pools and images)
- Automatic data distribution over OSDs, with support for:
  - Mathematical optimization for better uniformity and less data movement
  - Multiple pools
  - Placement tree, OSD selection by tags (device classes) and placement root
  - Configurable failure domains
- Recovery of degraded blocks
- Rebalancing (data movement between OSDs)
- Lazy fsync support
- Per-OSD and per-image I/O and space usage statistics in etcd
- Snapshots and copy-on-write image clones
- Write throttling to smooth random write workloads in SSD+HDD configurations
- RDMA/RoCEv2 support via libibverbs

CLI (vitastor-cli):
- Pool listing and space stats (df)
- Image listing, space and I/O stats (ls)
- Image and snapshot creation (create, modify)
- Image removal and snapshot merge (rm, flatten, merge, rm-data)

Plugins and packaging:
- Debian and CentOS packages
- Generic user-space client library
- Native QEMU driver
- Loadable fio engine for benchmarks
- NBD proxy for kernel mounts
- CSI plugin for Kubernetes
- OpenStack support: Cinder driver, Nova and libvirt patches
- Proxmox storage plugin and packages

## Roadmap

The following features are planned for the future:

- Better OSD creation and auto-start tools
- Other administrative tools
- Web GUI
- OpenNebula plugin
- iSCSI proxy
- Simplified NFS proxy
- Multi-threaded client
- Faster failover
- Scrubbing without checksums (verification of replicas)
- Checksums
- Tiered storage (SSD caching)
- NVDIMM support
- Compression (possibly)
- Read caching using system page cache (possibly)