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Nexenta is a Unix-based storage appliance operating system centered around the ZFS filesystem.

The OpenSolaris kernel (including ZFS, CIFS and NFS Servers) is paired with with a GNU/Debian user experience and apt package management. Nexenta Systems Inc makes three versions available:

  • Nexenta Core Platform (text-based UI, community/forum supported, 100% open source)
  • NexentaStor Community Edition (WebUI, community/forum supported, 12TB limit)
  • NexentaStor Enterprise (WebUI, commercial support, licensed per-TB of raw storage capacity)

Nexenta also offers additional capabilities (HA, DRS, FC Target, WORM, Windows backup, etc) via commercial plugins for NexentaStor.

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nexenta and the free access to web interface

In nexentastor default intallation any users that knows the ip can connect to it and access in read-only mode to the web interface In my opinion this can rappresent a problem because anyone can read details of my infrastructure: shares, luns,…
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What would cause a Windows 7 client machine to not be able to connect to a network share by IP address?

We have a Nexenta file server which is using domain authentication for users. All of the Windows 7 machines on our network can connect and use the shares on it without any issues using either \XX.YY.ZZ.AA\share or \fileserver\share. We added a new…
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Multiple VLAN on one switch port

I have a HP ProCurve 1810G-8 which I currently use as a normal switch between 3 servers and a firewall. 2 of the servers are ESXi hosts, and one is a Nexentastor box with 2 iSCSI target LUNs. As the iSCSI traffic is on the same LAN as all other…
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Ubuntu client can't mount Nexenta NFS

I have a Nexenta storage box (Solaris), which exports an NFS share. Mac OS X and older Ubuntu clients can mount the NFS share just fine without any special options. Later version of Ubuntu simply returns: mount.nfs: access denied by server while…
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Nexenta, NFS and LOCK_EX

I'm currently using an LAMP architecture and I expect a big problem :( I have several http web server using PHP5. All are mounting via NFS (v3) the directory for all the hosted websites. The file server is running the Nexenta Storage Appliance using…
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How to Set up Amazon EC2 with Nexenta OS?

I want to use Nexenta os for testing purpose and really want to test it out over aws ec2. I couldnot find any Nexenta os ami's. So, i was wondering if there's any way to set up Nexenta os on aws ec2 as a custom os ?? Any heads up or solutions are…
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3ware 8506, Solaris (Nexenta Core) and the tw driver: driver (tw) successfully added to system but failed to attach

I've got a little Nexenta Core box at home that's doing NAS duties. Recently, I bought a second hand 3ware 8506 12-port SATA controller to go with the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller that I already have, which should allow me to go to more than 8…
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Install MegaCli to Monitor Perc 5/i in Nexentastor 3

I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I understand, in this configuration ZFS/Nexentastor…
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Undelete ZFS file shared by Samba

A user deleted a directory containing an important file over a Samba share. Share was from a Nexenta box running ZFS, raid-Z3. Last backup was 12 hours ago - is there a way to recover the 1 day's work? Edit: Asked about topic on Nexenta forums,…
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Can we "add" more SAS ports to an existing backplane?

We have a 3U Supermicro chassis with 16 bays on a SAS expander backplane. We have 15 of the bays occupied with hard drives at the moment. We would like to add two more drives to the backplane, but we only have 1 bay open. Does anyone know if there…
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Is it possible to limit folder size in NexentaStor Community Edition

For example if i have a 4TB ZFS Volume, is it possible to create 3 folders and then limit each folder to, say, 2GB. If so, how? I have googled hard and wide but to no avail - all i get is info on the 18TB license restriction. All and any advice…
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Mapping VDIs directly to software iSCSI LUNs in XenServer

I read in the XenServer Administrator's Guide in section 4.1.6.2 that you can map raw LUNs to VDIs if you're using a NetApp or EqualLogic SAN. Is it possible to do the same with Software iSCSI SANs (i.e. using a Nexenta/ZFS-based SAN as the iSCSI…
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Migrate zpool to new SAS controller

Long ago, we bought an Adaptec 31605 under the impression that: a) it could do true JBOD, and b) it was well supported on OpenSolaris. Turns out both of these were incorrect. I'm trying to get my zpool onto a NexentaStor Enterprise OS, but to do…
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Upgrade Nexenta to Solaris Express?

I've had a NAS built on Nextenta that has worked great for a while. However, I'm looking to upgrade the NAS to run Solaris Express 11 as it's better support by my company's IT department, as well as having direct support from Oracle. I've currently…
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Debug Nexenta/OpenSolaris core files?

I have a Sun x4540 that was recently converted to NexentaStor Enterprise Edition from an earlier OpenSolaris. The system disks were wiped and the zpools were exported and reimported. I'm hosting roughly 30 virtual machines to VMWare vSphere over NFS…
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