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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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When to Use Nexenta or OpenFiler or GlusterFS

I am not an expert in storage solution and I ma eager to understand the big picture when choosing Storage OS like when we choose to Nexentastor or OpenFiler or GlusterFS Those three apps are only the example since from my understanding each has its…
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scalable storage solution using ZFS: OSOL / Nexenta?

some one commented that ZFS is not a distibuted file system and thus more suitable for storage from a box than a cluster. is it possible to start small as NAS with Nexenta / opensolaris and scale up in future by adding more SAS JBODs? if so, what…
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how-to: ZFS design and cache tuning : ARC, ZIL

storage system in consideration from below h/w lying idle: 6 x 300GB 10K SAS; 2 X 146 GB 15K SAS; 12GB DDR2 RAM; Xeon CPU 2.5Ghz two 1GB NIC ports 1 - DLink 1GB ethernet switch (1000/100 MB) 8-port unmanaged Software: nexentastor community 3.0.3 or…
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ZFS - is it safe to remove files served by ZFS during a resilver/rebuild?

I have a Nexenta ZFS system serving a large NFS volume (using ~85% of 250 TB). One of the 70 disks failed over a week ago, and the system is resilvering a hot spare without issues (other than the large performance losses due to the intense…
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Add nexentastor to domain (ldap/samba)

I have PDC on LDAP/SAMBA 3.x on CentOS 5. Domain memberships - Linux/Windows (Xp..7). For add computer account in PDC i run (on PDC) smbldap-useradd -w workstationname on the linux, configure smb.conf smbpasswd -w password_for_ldap_admin net join…
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Nexenta - unknown trap type 8 in user mode

I'm trying to install NexentaStor 3.1.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM on AMD64 platform. During the install I encounter the following exception : "unknown trap type 8 in user mode" Can anyone point me what can be the issue ? Thanks.
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ESXi and link aggregation to another system

Can I aggregate two or more interface on ESXi 5.1u1 to connect (without a switch) another system that support this type of connection? I want create a back-to-back link aggregation as like descripted in this…
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Zpool list showing blank values

My problem is that when I call zpool list it gives this blank output.... NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT - - - - - - - - However a zfs list shows that syspool is imported NAME …
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Nexenta storage metro cluster - what are components involved?

As Nexenta is built on Illumos, a successor of OpenSolaris, I was wondering what components are involved in their storage metro clustering? Can anybody enlight me as to what components are doing this site-to-site mirroring? If these components are…
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Why does Nexenta seem to ignore my /etc/system settings?

I am trying to tune my NFS performance, but for some reason nexenta is ignoring whatever I specify in /etc/system. In the following screen shot it becomes apparent that my manual settings are not being picked up, why? I realize the web gui does give…
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Desktop HDD in a server?

Possible Duplicate: What are the merits of SAS vs SATA drives? Would it be OK to use a SATA 6Gb/s desktop drive in a server? Say for example a 4 Seagate ST31000524AS drives in a raid 10 array. I will be using NexentaCE. I will be using a 240Gb…
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Acquiring new servers to run ESXi and SAN/NAS

Here is our goal: Setup new servers to turn our entire physical computer network into 3 physical groups, which are: Server 1 - NAS - Openfiler/NexentaStor CE/FreeNAS/(Other Suggestions) Server 2 - ESXi Server with the following VM's: VM1 -…
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Nexenta can not read the pool label/ error 5 on import root pool

I have a home Nexenta Store CE server and after shutting it down to move it it will not boot up anymore. It turns on and detects all 7 drives ( 6 data drives plus 1 smaller OS drive) then it gives me the blue Nexenta boot loader, I hit enter and it…
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How can I mount JFS (not zfs) on Nexenta (or Solaris)?

How can I mount a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS_(file_system)'>JFS (not ZFS) filesystem on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta'>Nexenta (or Solaris)?
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Finding the bottleneck in Nexenta?

I built a Nexentastor server (free edition) and I am having serious disk performance issues. This same box had FreeNAS on it before and it was much much faster. Here are the specs: Dual core E6600 cpu 4GB of good memory 6x 1.5TB Seagate drives…
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