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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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Hosting a ZFS server as a virtual guest

I'm still new to ZFS. I've been using Nexenta but I'm thinking of switching to OpenIndiana or Solaris 11 Express. Right now, I'm at a point of considering virtualizing the ZFS server as a guest within either ESXi, Hyper-V or XenServer (I haven't…
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Tuning ZFS scrubbing, 141KB/s running for 15 days

A pretty basic system running mirror+stripe on 7.2k rpm sas disks, not particularly loaded. No dedup, compression on all datasets. Scrub has been running for 15 days at the speed of a dead snail. Is there some optimization that needs be done, or can…
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ZFS - destroying deduplicated zvol or data set stalls the server. How to recover?

I'm using Nexentastor on a secondary storage server running on an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 with 12 Midline (7200 RPM) SAS drives. The system has an E5620 CPU and 8GB RAM. There is no ZIL or L2ARC device. Last week, I created a 750GB sparse zvol with…
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ZFS - Impact of L2ARC cache device failure (Nexenta)

I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server running as a NexentaStor storage unit. The server has 36GB RAM, 2 LSI 9211-8i SAS controllers (no SAS expanders), 2 SAS system drives, 12 SAS data drives, a hot-spare disk, an Intel X25-M L2ARC cache and a…
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Backup storage server with ZFS

I am IT everything man at a small company. I want to design a new infrastructure including a new server and a separate backup server with company wide backup policy. The most important thing in the company is the SQL Server and its databases. There…
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Anybody have experience with using Nexenta?

I'm evaluating the Nexenta platform to hopefully one day replace our legacy file servers. I would primarily use it as a CIFS server in an Active Directory environment. Anyone out there have any experience using it? Good? Bad? Which hardware…
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Is FreeNAS ready for the enterprise?

I am having a bit of split in thought. I am looking at getting a NAS for my company, we need it for our VMware server. Originally the idea was to buy a NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS) But then I got some recommendations from the community (ServerFault) to…
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 SATA support?

I'm planning to get a second hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 and setup it as storage server, probably using NexentaStor and setup a ZFS system. But now I wonder does DL380 G4 can be convert or support SATA hard disks? SCSI hard disk will not be enough…
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When using thin-provisioning with ZFS, how do you make sure you don't run out of physical disk space?

Forgive me if this seems like a fundamental question, but I couldn't really find anything concrete on Google, and I'm not a system administrator by trade. We are setting up a SAN at our office using NexentaStor with an 8-disk RAID Z3 configuration…
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Why did I experience checksum errors with a ZFS filesystem on an ESXi RDM?

I have a VMware ESXi 4.1 server which I recently added 2x1TB SATA drives to. This machine runs a NexentaStor Community VM which hosts ZFS filesystems. Before adding the new drives, all the ZFS zpools resided inside virtual diska (VMDK files) which…
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Suggestions for a NAS for VMware storage

I have been looking at Openfiler, and it appears to be a great open-source solution. I haven't seen very much documentation on limitations of OF. We are by no means a Fortune 500 company (yet:) so our current budget is rather minimal, but none the…
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Missing space on ZFS (Nexenta)

I am facing an issue where ZFS appears to be missing around 4TB of space on a 16TB volume. The ZFS pool is reporting the correct size (16.3TB): nmc@thn-nstor1:/$ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ CAP DEDUP HEALTH …
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JBOD SAS adapter for Solaris/Nexenta on Dell PowerEdge 2950?

Given: One or more available Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers The desire to deploy ZFS iSCSI storage using Nexenta or Solaris ZFS uses software RAID Dell's PERC 5 RAID controllers do not support JBOD Presenting single-disk RAID 0 arrays in lieu of JBOD…
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Nexentastor 4: lost connection to storage and web interface

I have a server that runs nexentastor version 4. I use web interface to manage it. The server has been working on production environment for about two years with no issues until last week - where I could no connect to the web interface, and I lost…
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ZFS, NFS and Nexenta

Is this message familiar to someone ? zfs-clu-01a rpcmod: [ID 851375 kern.warning] WARNING: svc_cots_kdup no slots free zfs-clu-01a last message repeated 75220 times We have a lot of trouble using NFS on ZFS . Actually we cannot copy big files…
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