Tutorials & Demos
NexentaStor ISO image is available in several editions. NexentaStor Installation (demonstrated in the following recorded movie) essentially boils down to burning a CD, booting from it, and following the on-screen instructions.
Initial Configuration Wizard will guide you through the first steps of setting up the appliance.
Nexenta Management View (NMV) provides appliance's web management interface. NMV combines intuitive graphical interface with ease of use and the ability to monitor all appliances on the network.
NexentaStor web GUI supports multiple themes and "talks" to DTrace backend to monitor performance. The appliance's web GUI look-and-feel has significantly improved, and will continue to improve in the coming weeks and months. Please see some of the screenshots (status, storage, network, faults), and the demo below:
Nexenta Management Console (NMC) enables users to view and configure every aspect of NexentaStor: volumes and folders, storage and network services, any given appliance on the network and groups of appliances. The following 4 tutorials introduce NMC basics:
The next 5 movies demonstrate newer capabilities available via NexentaStor pluggable extensions:
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VM DataCenter: integrated VMware ESX(tm) storage management2
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VM DataCenter: integrated Microsoft Hyper-V(tm) storage management2
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Simple-failover: semi-automated failover in a group of N (N>=2) appliances 2
- NexentaStor Adapter for Citrix StorageLink. NexentaStor StorageLink Adapter is a separate module that uses the NexentaStor Storage Appliance public API (SA-API) to allow StorageLink to control NexentaStor instances and to thereby take full advantage of NexentaStor capabilities. The demonstration is avalable on the adapter's web page on this site.
1 NexentaStor is developing at a high pace, in terms of the product capabilities and applications. Your version of Nexenta Management View, Management Console, and Initial Configuration Wizard may slightly or even considerably differ from what's recorded in the playback demonstrations posted on this page. Please use the product to discover its capabilities!
2 This demonstration requires your Internet Browser to play embedded Windows Media Video (WMV) file. The corresponding Browser plugin may be required.
