1. FrameworkThe Framework is a set of components and tools which brings the user an interface (GUI / API) to setup, extend and manage an Open vStorage platform.
2. volumedriverThe Open vStorage VolumeDriver is the core of the Open vStorage solution: a high performance distributed block layer. It converts block storage into objects (Storage Container Objects).
3. albaOpen vStorage ALBA (alternate backend) creates a replicated or flexible network raid’ed object storage backend out of Seagate Kinetic drives and local disk supporting compression, encryption.