NexentaStor is optimized for use in 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications requiring open, low cost, high performance storage as well as dramatically simplified provisioning, expansion, backup, replication and archiving. NexentaStor is also used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at closer to commodity pricing.
The Nexenta Storage Appliance product targets your end to end storage needs. Whether as your primary NAS, or as secondary storage of the tiered or replicated variety, this ZFS-based product targets the full life cycle of your data, with flexible snapshots, retention policies, tiering and synchronization between various storage systems, and optional compression per storage container.
The product enables a wide variety of disk technologies, such as local SCSI, SAS, SATA and similar to be directly employed, but also adds the flexibility of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and newer interconnected storage such as Infiniband-based SAS solutions.
NexentaStor uses NexentaOS operating system as its foundation. Following is a table that compares the two:
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Feature
|
NexentaOS
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NexentaStor
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ZFS
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Management
Server
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Management
Console
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Management
web interface
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Centralized
(single-point and single-login) management
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Group
management of multiple nodes
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Integrated
iSCSI management
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Integrated
file and directory sharing via:
-
NFSv4
and NFSv3
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CIFS
(native)
-
SAMBA
-
WebDAV
-
FTP
-
RSYNC
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Integrated
User Management
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Integrated
Access Control List (ACL) Management
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Safe
transactional upgrades and system checkpoints
|
Yes()
|
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 protection
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Daily
and weekly reports
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Graphical
statistics (network and storage)
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Public
Storage Appliance API (SA-API)
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Built-in
Search Engine, to index and search NexentaStor archives
|
no
|
Yes
|
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Customizable
Fault and Performance Management plugins
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Command
batching and scripting
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
I/O
benchmark
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Ajax
based remote console
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Wizard-guided
initial configuration
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
Ease
of use
|
no
|
Yes
|
|
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NexentaStor Developer Edition: VMware Image |
 NexentaStor Developer Edition: VMware Image will run unmodified on all VMware’s hosted products, including VMware Player, VMware Workstation and VMware Server for Windows and Linux, VMware Fusion for Mac. The product's release notes are available here. To get started with the Virtual Appliance and for detailed step-by-step instruction on how to deploy the product, please see NexentaStor Quick Start Guide.
Recommended environment:
- VMware ESX 3.x/Workstation 6.x/VMware Server 1.0.4+
- Linux/Windows/MacOSX host operating system
- 1GB of memory (512MB minimum)
- 10GB of free disk space (4GB minimum)
Download time-unlimited full featured evaluation product to manage up to six terabytes of user data (with no limits on the total size of attached storage), using one of the following three options:
Option #1. Download via BitTorrent:
Option #2. Download via HTTP from fast mirror:
Option #3. Download via HTTP (slow):
The download does not require registration. For the first steps, please refer to Quick Start Guide. You will be able to activate the appliance with Evaluation Key and use it for-free, or buy TB-unlimited commercial version.
(*)NexentaStor containts software licensed under various open source licenses, including GPL. The corresponding source code with modifications for the open source components is available here.
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NexentaStor Developer Edition: CD image |
- 64 bit processor (32 bit not recommended for production)
- 768MB RAM minimum for evaluation, 2GB okay, 4GB ideal
- 2 identical relatively small disks for high-availability system folder (for operating system and the rest appliance's software)
- Additional drives/storage for data volumes
Download time-unlimited fully-featured NexentaStor Developer Edition to manage up to one terabyte of user data, using one of the following two options:
Option #1. Download via HTTP from fast mirror:
Option #2. Download via HTTP (slow):
The download does not require registration. For the first steps, please refer to Quick Start Guide. You will be able to activate the appliance with Evaluation Key and use it for-free, or buy TB-unlimited commercial version.
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Download NexentaStor Virtual Appliance, Evaluation Version (TORRENT)
NexentaStor Developer Edition: CD image can be installed on a “bare-metal” x86/64 hardware. The hardware compatibility lists for Solaris 10 and for OpenSolaris can be considered inclusive for what is supported. The NexentaStor installer also verifies hardware compatibility before installation commences. For more information on the hardware compatibility, please visit 
