Nexenta is UNIX-based storage operating system built around ZFS.
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nexenta and the free access to web interface
In nexentastor default intallation any users that knows the ip can connect to it and access in read-only mode to the web interface
In my opinion this can rappresent a problem because anyone can read ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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zpool: disk replace breaks disk naming convention
After replacing 2 broken disks in my RAID-Z2 pool the output of 'zpool status' looks strange. The disks are addressed with their full path and also seem to contain 'slices', which all other disk ...
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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 ...
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What would cause a Windows 7 client machine to not be able to connect to a network share by IP address?
We have a Nexenta file server which is using domain authentication for users. All of the Windows 7 machines on our network can connect and use the shares on it without any issues using either ...
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Openssh installation [closed]
This question is directly connected to the question Error sh: line 9: 19705: Memory fault (coredump) in case of OpenSSH installation. After the next execution of the command of make install I received ...
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Error sh: line 9: 19705: Memory fault (coredump) in case of OpenSSH installation
I downloaded openssh-6.1.p1/tar.gz with http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/. I made at first ./configure, then make which, it seems, fulfilled without errors (Nexenta Illumos ...
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The steps to install service-network-ssh [closed]
My original goal was setup service-network-ssh on Nexenta Illumos. As a result of the command
apt-get install service-network-ssh
I got the following message
Reading package lists...
Building ...
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Why is MySQL unable to open hosts.allow/hosts.deny?
I have a storage server running Nexenta (OpenSolaris kernel, Ubuntu userspace) with MySQL on top of a ZFS storage array, using innodb_file_per_table and ulimit -n set to 8K. mysqltuner.pl confirms ...
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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 ...
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ESXI Crash need help to understand log and support about nexentastor on virtual machine
If i understand right, the following core dump means that the cpu4 has crashed the Host
if i read the next line it seem that at the time the CPU 4 was assigned to the NexentaStore
Vm ... SO if im ...
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Multiple VLAN on one switch port
I have a HP ProCurve 1810G-8 which I currently use as a normal switch between 3 servers and a firewall.
2 of the servers are ESXi hosts, and one is a Nexentastor box with 2 iSCSI target LUNs.
As the ...
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Ubuntu client can't mount Nexenta NFS
I have a Nexenta storage box (Solaris), which exports an NFS share.
Mac OS X and older Ubuntu clients can mount the NFS share just fine, without any special options. Later version of Ubuntu simply ...
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How to set up IP forwarding on Nexenta (Solaris)?
I am trying to set up IP forwarding on my Nexenta box:
root@hdd:~# uname -a
SunOS hdd 5.11 NexentaOS_134f i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
The box has 2 network interfaces:
root@hdd:~# ifconfig -a
lo0: ...
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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 ...
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How do physical disks passed through ESXi perform vs. passing through HBAs?
Context:
I have a SAN operating system (Nexenta) that runs on ESXi. It has a couple of HBAs passed through to it already, via VT-d. All of the HBAs for the SAN OS are full (no free connectors). I ...
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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 ...
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Nexenta, NFS and LOCK_EX
I'm currently using an LAMP architecture and I expect a big problem :(
I have several http web server using PHP5. All are mounting via NFS (v3) the directory for all the hosted websites. The file ...
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How to Set up Amazon EC2 with Nexenta OS?
I want to use Nexenta os for testing purpose and really want to test it out over aws ec2. I couldnot find any Nexenta os ami's. So, i was wondering if there's any way to set up Nexenta os on aws ec2 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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3ware 8506, Solaris (Nexenta Core) and the tw driver: driver (tw) successfully added to system but failed to attach
I've got a little Nexenta Core box at home that's doing NAS duties. Recently, I bought a second hand 3ware 8506 12-port SATA controller to go with the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller that I already ...
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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 ...
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Install MegaCli to Monitor Perc 5/i in Nexentastor 3
I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I ...
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Undelete ZFS file shared by Samba
A user deleted a directory containing an important file over a Samba share.
Share was from a Nexenta box running ZFS, raid-Z3.
Last backup was 12 hours ago - is there a way to recover the 1 day's ...
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Desktop HDD in a server? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Problems configuring an SSH tunnel to a Nexentastor appliance for use with headless Crashplan
Problem
I am attempting to configure an SSH tunnel to a NexentaStor appliance from either a Windows or Linux computer so that I can connect a Crashplan Desktop GUI to a headless Crashplan server ...
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Can we “add” more SAS ports to an existing backplane?
We have a 3U Supermicro chassis with 16 bays on a SAS expander backplane. We have 15 of the bays occupied with hard drives at the moment. We would like to add two more drives to the backplane, but we ...
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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 ...
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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)
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Is it possible to limit folder size in NexentaStor Community Edition
For example if i have a 4TB ZFS Volume, is it possible to create 3 folders and then limit each folder to, say, 2GB. If so, how?
I have googled hard and wide but to no avail - all i get is info on the ...
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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 ...
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Suggestions for a NAS for VMware storage [closed]
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 ...
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NexentaStor CE or Openfiler? Which do you recommend? [closed]
I'm planning to implement a 'poor man's storage' using Openfiler or NexentaStor CE.
I need the filer solution to provide iSCSI target and CIFS sharing abilities. The iSCSI target and CIFS share will ...
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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 ...
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ZFS (NexentaStor) and 4k Advanced Format Partition Alignment
I have a storage system that contains 8 x 1TB drives that use the 4k sector size "Advanced Format". I'm planning to run NexentaStor on this hardware and want to ensure that I'm taking the 4k sector ...
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Mapping VDIs directly to software iSCSI LUNs in XenServer
I read in the XenServer Administrator's Guide in section 4.1.6.2 that you can map raw LUNs to VDIs if you're using a NetApp or EqualLogic SAN. Is it possible to do the same with Software iSCSI SANs ...
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Handling XenServer snapshotting and cloning with ZFS SAN
I'm planning on setting up a XenServer machine that uses a NexentaOS/ZFS-based SAN for storage of the Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) through iSCSI. I know I could just setup a big Storage Repository (SR) ...
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NexentaStor vs FreeNAS
I currently have a Debian Lenny file server for my small network (4 machines). I have 4x1TB drives in a RAID5 config. Since I botched the Lenny-Squeeze upgrade, it seems like a perfect time to give ...
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Booting Nexenta root mirror results in GRUB error “Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xbf”
I have a Nexenta system that's been running fine for the last few years. Recently one of the system disks failed --- the syspool was part of a ZFS mirror.
If I configure the system's BIOS to boot ...
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Migrate zpool to new SAS controller
Long ago, we bought an Adaptec 31605 under the impression that: a) it could do true JBOD, and b) it was well supported on OpenSolaris. Turns out both of these were incorrect. I'm trying to get my ...
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Upgrade Nexenta to Solaris Express?
I've had a NAS built on Nextenta that has worked great for a while. However, I'm looking to upgrade the NAS to run Solaris Express 11 as it's better support by my company's IT department, as well as ...
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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 ...
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Why is Nexentastor so slow - especially to delete files
I am running a Nexentastor server with the follow specs:
dual core (core2duo) cpu
4GB of ram
1x 160GB SATA2 drive for the OS
6x 1.5TB Drives Sata2 drives in a RaidZ1
copying files is fine, fairly ...
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How can I mount JFS (not zfs) on Nexenta (or Solaris)?
How can I mount a JFS (not ZFS) filesystem on Nexenta (or Solaris)?
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Nexenta/OpenSolaris filer kernel panic/crash
I've an x4540 Sun storage server running NexentaStor Enterprise. It's serving NFS over 10GbE CX4 for several VMWare vSphere hosts. There are 30 virtual machines running.
For the past few weeks, I've ...
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Debug Nexenta/OpenSolaris core files?
I have a Sun x4540 that was recently converted to NexentaStor Enterprise Edition from an earlier OpenSolaris. The system disks were wiped and the zpools were exported and reimported. I'm hosting ...
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NFS IO priority on ZFS/Solaris
I've got a Nexenta/ZFS NAS that I'm using as an NFS backing store for a small VMware vSphere farm. At the moment I have 9x1TB disks all mirrored (last disk is configured as a write log device).
The ...
