Nexenta 3.1.4 and beta Nexenta NFS VAAI Plugin released

4 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Along with the release of NexentaStor 3.1.4, Nexenta Systems today officially released the NFS VAAI beta plugin for VMware vSphere 5.x via the community NexentaStor.org forums. VAAI-NAS is still not widely supported in the NAS world, and of those that do, not all support all the primitives.  You can search the VMware Compatibility Guide for vendors that are VAAI-NAS certified. Quick Tutorial Here’s a quick tutorial to install the agent in NexentaStor and the plugin in VMware ESXi. ** … [Read more...]

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Building my Nexenta VM using (NFS) best practices

27 februari 2013 by 11 Comments
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I am currently using Nexentastor for my home lab. In my previous post I’ve explained how I build my low power 64Gb home lab. I’ve installed Nexentastor Community Edition on my virtual machine with the following specs: 2vCPU 8GB RAM 16Gb system disk on local SSD use VMXNET3 network adapter for better performance. I attached 7 disks as RDM (4 SATA + 3 SSD) If you got VT-d capable CPU you might want to attach your SATA controller directly to your Nexenta VM. Download the … [Read more...]

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Nexenta CE – VAAI for NFS beta plugin

22 februari 2013 by 1 Comment
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I stumbled upon a folder in the Nexenta USB stick handout I got on VMworld. It included some scripts to install VAAI for NFS on Nexenta CE! I checked it out, and they seem to work ok although the plugin released 22 October 2012 is still 1.0.127 beta Download the plugin here As this is still beta, please just use it in your lab... not production … [Read more...]

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NexentaStor Community Edition 3.1.3.5 Released

24 oktober 2012 by 1 Comment
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I was waiting for the 3.1.4 version to be released, but instead Nexenta released the 3.1.3.5 version. So, What’s new in this release: Romley Motherboard support VMXNET3 driver (Wait… 10G Networking support for Virtual Storage Appliance, NICE) General Stability (See the list of bug fixes.) Note for VMware Appliance users. It’s important that you read the complete release notes, lots of new improvements and instructions how to install the new open vmware tools in the appliance … [Read more...]

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In the test: Nexenta CE with VMware I/O Analyzer

27 juni 2012 by 11 Comments
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Wondering what the performance is of my home build Nexenta CE box connected to one ESX host over Fiber Channel. I started testing with three I/O Analyzer VM’s distributed over 3 LUN’s connected with FC. (using Fiber Channel target with Nexenta CE is not supported) 512bytes Read Throughput Benchmark Results: 100% Read: 378MB/sec   … [Read more...]

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Building superfast whitebox storage with Nexenta CE

24 juni 2012 by 17 Comments
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I spent some time this weekend upgrading my home lab. I needed to improve my shared storage and hoped that I could reuse old h/w instead of buying something new and expensive. I’ve been using an QNAP TS-459 Pro II Turbo NAS for the last couple of year. It’s iSCSI performance is acceptable for 1-5 VM’s but when I needed to build a complete View environment or vCloud Director lab I usually reverted to local storage which rather defeated the purpose. I started to look around for storage … [Read more...]

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