{"id":590,"date":"2010-05-13T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=590"},"modified":"2010-09-19T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T19:55:56","slug":"more-on-nexenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"More on Nexenta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my $0.02 on <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\/\">Nexenta<\/a>.  (Based on my use of the free <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nexentastor.org\/projects\/site\/wiki\/CommunityEdition\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexentastor.org\/projects\/site\/wiki\/CommunityEdition\">NexentaStor Community Edition, 3.0.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize: Good stuff!\u00a0 If you are looking for storage appliance software, try Nexenta first. Maybe you&#8217;ll luck out and Nexenta will like your hardware. If not, run Openfiler.<\/p>\n<p>The Nexenta Community Edition is free to use. They do make you register it. That&#8217;s a bit of a hassle, especially if you fat-finger the key (&#8220;Is that an I or a 1?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The Nexenta load is no harder than, and arguably easier, than loading Openfiler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wiki\/HowTo:FilerPerformance\">Nexenta goes faster that Openfiler.\u00a0 Nexenta goes faster than my $25,000 Dell\/Equallogic PS5000E.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wiki\/HowTo:Nexenta\">I&#8217;m working on a step by step how-to for loading Nexenta. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexenta1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-591\" title=\"nexenta1\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexenta1-1024x819.png\" alt=\"nexenta1\" width=\"498\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexenta1-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexenta1-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nexenta1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nexenta is more picky about hardware than Openfiler. Some machines that run Openfiler fine won&#8217;t run Nexenta at all. Since Nexenta is based on OpenSolaris, the <a title=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/bigadmin\/hcl\/data\/os\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/bigadmin\/hcl\/data\/os\/\">OpenSolaris Hardware Compatibility List<\/a> may give you some guidance whether your hardware will run Nexenta.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of pickiness, I&#8217;ve had Nexenta repeatedly give me grief at install time on certain machines. The installer starts, doesn&#8217;t get very far, and then reboots. I found that Nexenta doesn&#8217;t like the BIOS APCI power settings. If you see this, try fiddling with APCI in BIOS (like turning it off).<\/li>\n<li>Openfiler is a bit &#8220;fiddly&#8221; at times. Something that you know for a fact works, doesn&#8217;t, and you wind up dinking with it. For example, I almost always wind up throwing my first iSCSI target away, and making a second one.<\/li>\n<li>If Nexenta loads at all (see comment about hardware pickiness above), it just works the first time, every time, smooth sailing.<\/li>\n<li>Openfiler 2.3 &#8220;out of the box&#8221; is broken. iSCSI luns will present once, but will not present again after a reboot. This is well discussed issue. <a title=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wiki\/HowTo:Openfiler#Make_required_tweaks_to_address_the_Openfiler_2.3_reboot_issue\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"..\/..\/wiki\/HowTo:Openfiler#Make_required_tweaks_to_address_the_Openfiler_2.3_reboot_issue\">It&#8217;s easy to fix<\/a>, but it&#8217;s unfortunate that the Openfiler people haven&#8217;t addressed it.<\/li>\n<li>I like the built in patcher in the Openfiler GUI.  I&#8217;m not sure how Nexenta does patching.<\/li>\n<li>Nexenta is prettier, especially if you have flash.  The little tachometer gauges are especially cute.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the advanced features in the pay-for-commercial <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\/corp\/nexentastor-overview\/nexentastor-releases\/nexentastor-30\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\/corp\/nexentastor-overview\/nexentastor-releases\/nexentastor-30\">NexentaStor 3.0<\/a>,  like the <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\/corp\/plugins-products\/high-availability-products\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nexenta.com\/corp\/plugins-products\/high-availability-products\">High Availability Cluster Plugin<\/a> are supposedly easy to deploy. Openfiler has features like this as well, but few mortal humans have ever figured out how to actually use them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my $0.02 on Nexenta. (Based on my use of the free NexentaStor Community Edition, 3.0.2. To summarize: Good stuff!\u00a0 If you are looking for storage appliance software, try Nexenta first. 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