ARR-first storage lifecycle management

Your media grows. Your storage should too.

Hoardarr turns real homelab disks, pools, shares, and block storage into one guided lifecycle—from first discovery to expansion, recovery, and eventual retirement.

See the first Alpha ISO Explore the roadmap

Alpha validation is underway. Public image coming soon.

RAIDZ1 / Z2 / Z3 Guided pool creation and exact topology review
SMB · NFS · iSCSI File and block presentation with real data-path tests
Import & recovery Detect existing pools, review them, and preserve data
Live telemetry Bandwidth, IOPS, latency, health, and lifecycle state

A calmer storage workflow

Tell Hoardarr the outcome. It handles the layers.

Standard mode detects the environment, recommends a complete stack, and asks targeted questions about choices that shape your data.

Detect

Disks, paths, sectors, health, pools, filesystems, shares, LUNs, and existing data.

Understand

Media, downloads, backups, VMs, databases, mixed workloads, or a custom goal.

Recommend

Topology, protection, growth plan, datasets or zvols, tuning, and presentation.

Review

A clear summary of capacity, compatibility, and every proposed action.

Apply

One guided plan powered by the same backend policies in both modes.

One engine · two ways to work

Simple enough to start. Deep enough to stay.

Grandma and an ONTAP developer should be able to configure the same complete storage plan at the level that makes sense to them.

Default

Standard mode

Goal-first guided setup

Hoardarr detects hardware, preselects recommended quick options, and explains the decisions that matter.

  • ARR and media-library presets
  • Recommended layouts from detected disks
  • Quick format and fast validation by default
  • Clear confirmation for storage-layout choices

Advanced mode

The full storage stack, fully visible

Inspect and tune the same plan layer by layer through one shared storage engine.

  • Disk and path characteristics
  • Vdev, pool, dataset, zvol, share, and LUN controls
  • Multipath, replication, quorum, and HA visibility
  • Enterprise-grade controls included
Real enterprise hard disk, SAS solid-state drive, U.2 NVMe drive, SAS cable, fiber cables, and rackmount disk shelf on an antistatic workbench
Real hardware, mixed generations, changing connections—exactly the environment Hoardarr is designed to make understandable.

Built for the hardware you have

Local disks, SAS shelves, NVMe, and imported arrays.

Hoardarr connects identity, topology, permissions, and presentation into one understandable storage stack.

01
Detect before asking

Use real hardware and existing configuration facts wherever they are reliable.

02
Turn unknowns into questions

Unresolved values become clear, targeted wizard questions.

03
Preserve the route back

Reviewable plans, readback, stable application paths, and explicit import permission policy.

See the problem before the pool feels it

Storage telemetry that tells a story.

Live graphs already expose throughput, operations, latency, and health. Persistent, per-user Grafana-style dashboards are on the active roadmap.