NexentaStor License Versions
Nexenta® offers two free versions of NexentaStor and one commercial version. If you are considering putting NexentaStor into production at your organization and would like to trial a version of NexentaStor you should select the Free Trial Edition.
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Feature
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Community Edition
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Free Trial Edition
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Enterprise Edition
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Time limitations
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None
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45 days
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None
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Storage capacity
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12 TB
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Unlimited
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Unlimited(*)
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| Commercial Plugins |
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Cluster 1.0 for Active / Active HA
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-
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Yes
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Yes
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VMDC for Virtualization
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-
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto Sync and CDP for Data Replication
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- |
Yes |
Yes
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WORM for Data retention
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-
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Yes
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Yes
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| Target for virtual LUN mapping |
- |
Yes |
Yes |
Support and Upgrades
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Technical Support
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- |
Yes |
Yes |
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Maintenance Agreement
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- |
- |
Yes |
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NexentaStor Upgrades
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Yes - unstable |
Yes |
Yes
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| Download |
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(*) Enterprise Edition uses simple capacity-based licensing. Please consult your Enterprise Edition license for details on available (licensed) capacity and available plugins. For a detailed product feature list, please see NexentaStor User Guide documentation.
Comparison Table
NexentaStor uses the open source NexentaOS operating system as its foundation. Following is a table that compares the NexentaOS and NexentaStor Enterprise Edition:
| Feature | NexentaOS | NexentaStor |
| ZFS |
Yes |
Yes |
| Management Server |
no |
Yes |
| Management Console |
no |
Yes |
| Management Web Interface |
no |
Yes |
| Centralized (single-point and single-login) management |
no |
Yes |
| Group management of multiple nodes |
no |
Yes |
| Integrated iSCSI management |
no |
Yes |
Integrated file and directory sharing via:
- NFSv4 and NFSv3
- CIFS
- WebDAV2
- FTP
- RSYNC
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no |
Yes |
| Integrated User Management |
no |
Yes |
| Integrated Access Control List (ACL) Management |
no |
Yes |
| Safe transactional upgrades and system checkpoints |
Yes(3) |
Yes |
| Integrated Fault Management |
no |
Yes |
| Integrated Statistics Collection |
no |
Yes |
| Integrated LDAP |
no |
Yes |
| Integrated Active Directory |
no |
Yes |
| 2nd tier storage services |
no |
Yes |
| Continuous data protection4 |
no |
Yes |
| Daily and weekly reports |
no |
Yes |
| Graphical statistics (network and storage) |
no |
Yes |
| Public and documented Storage Appliance API (SA-API) |
no |
Yes |
| Built-in Search Engine, to index and search NexentaStor archives |
no |
Yes |
| Customizable Fault and Performance Management plugins |
no |
Yes |
| Command batching and scripting |
no |
Yes |
| I/O and network performance benchmarks5 |
no |
Yes |
| Ajax based remote console |
no |
Yes |
| Wizard-guided initial configuration |
no |
Yes |
| Pluggable extensions: API browser, benchmarks, graphical stats, and more |
no |
Yes |
| VM DataCenter plugin: integrated ESX/NexentaStor management |
no |
Yes |
| HA (simple-failover) plugin: semi-automated failover in a group of N (N>=2) appliances |
no |
Yes |
| WORM (Write Once, Read Many) plugin |
no |
Yes |
| Ease of use |
no |
Yes |
NexentaStor supports 10/100/1000 Base-T and all major 10GE Ethernet solutions directly, as well as aggregation (802.3ad) and multi-path I/O. For most installations, we recommend at least aggregated 100Mbps Ethernet.
Native CIFS and NFS v4/v3 are supported. WebDAV is yet another option for easy access from Windows. NexentaStor also makes use of rsync, ssh, and zfs send/receive, as well as CIFS and NFS transports for tiering and replication. In addition, synchronous replication (remote mirroring) is available as the Auto CDP plug-in. LDAP support includes support for UID mapping, netgroups, X.509 certificate based client authentication, and other directory service based options that are included in a primary tier NAS. Specific Active Directory support is also included. A full feature list can be found in NexentaStor documentation.
NexentaStor also leverages a wide variety of disk technologies, such as local SCSI, SAS, SATA and similar directly attached technologies as well as the flexibility of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and newer interconnected storage such as Infiniband-based SAS solutions.