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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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How would I create multiple VLAN interfaces on a 802.1Q and LACP trunked network connection on Solaris?

I've got a Solaris (Nexenta) NAS box that I'm trying to create multiple VLAN subinterfaces for. Currently, I've got an LACP aggregated link set up on the 10.13.111.0/26 network to my switch (Cisco 3750). The switch port-channel interface is in…
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Server OS for hosting virtual servers with ZFS?

I'm looking to build a small business server with the goal of having it do little more than hosting a few virtual servers on it. The virtual servers will be running Linux. Originally I thought about having the main physical server OS being a Linux…
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Disk names in Solaris 10 for ZFS: SAS WWN instead of c0t0d0

I currently have a server running Solaris 10u9 with a SAS enclosure (Dell PowerVault MD1000) filled with SATA disks attached to an SAS card (LSI 3801E). It happily recognizes the 15 disks in the MD1000 and presents them each disk in the traditional…
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new Nexentastor installation - can't run bonnie

I am new to Nexenta but so far I am liking it. I want to use it to replace Freenas for the ZFS advancements. Anyways I am noticing sort of bad performance with CIFS (30-50MB/s) so I figured I would run some Bonnie tests. but bonnie gives me the…
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Solaris Fibre Channel target - Configure QLogic QLA2340

I'm currently trying to set up a small storage system as a fibre channel target. This is for testing, so I'm currently using Solaris (Nexenta) and a QLogic QLA2340 HBA. For some reason, the qlc and qlt drivers don't support the QLA2340, so I'm using…
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Sendmail in Nexenta core 3.0.1

I'm trying to setup sendmail in Nexenta core 3.0.1 (Solaris based OS). All I want is to be able to send emails from that host - like notifications about failures, cron jobs output etc. Initially Nexenta core doesn't have sendmail so here is what…
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Nexenta/OpenSolaris server reboots endlessly after upgrading NCP 2.0rc2 to NCP 3.0a4

I've got a working NexentaCore Platform 2.0rc2 (OpenSolaris b104) machine, which I'm trying to bring up-to-date using apt-clone upgrade --- NCP 3.0a4 (OpenSolaris b124). The upgrade process appears to complete successfully, however the machine…
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One server - Safe storage in esxi

I got a esxi server with 2x 3tb HDD these 2 disk are not in raid , so i got 2 data stores my vms use one datastore or the other as system disk I would like to have a safe storage place shared between my vms I'm planning to setup a VM which use a…
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