I would also add that you should try the NexentaStor Enterprise demo - fully functional for 45 days. If you find a partner they will most likely be able to provide you a managed trial. I'd be interested to hear what parts of the GUI didn't work for you.
--- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil....@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 11 November 2010 13:30, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbj...@nixtra.com> wrote: > Did you try NexentaCore? You gain full control over command line, like in > OpenSolaris. However it > seems faster and got more bugs fixed than OpenSolaris b134. > > I have already had OpenSolaris b134 crash one of my disk systems, I would > never install it > again... Besides, I would never get full 1 gigabit speed over NFS with > OpenSolaris, I barely > managed a 100-200 Mbits/sec, however in NexentaCore with the same hardware, > Im maxing out my > gigabit network. > > > > > On Thu, November 11, 2010 14:13, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > > > Big thanks! I think I'll also buy one before long. The > > power savings alone should be worth it over lifetime. > > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:03:21PM -0800, Krist van Besien wrote: > > > >> I just bought one. :-) > >> > >> > >> My imprssions: > >> > >> > >> - Installed Nexentastor community edition in it. All hardware was > recognized and works. No > >> problem there. I am however rather underwhelmed by the Nexentastor > system and will problably > >> just install Opensolaris on it (b134) this evening. I want to use the > box as a NAS, serving > >> CIFS to clients (a mixture of MAC and Linux machines) but as I don't > have that much > >> administration to do in it I'll just do it on the command line and forgo > fancy broken guis... - > >> The system is wel build. Quality is good. I could get the whole > motherboard tray out without > >> needing to use tools. It comes with 1GB of ram that I plan to upgrade. - > The system does come > >> with four HD trays and all the screws you need. I plunked in 4 2T disks, > and a small SSD for > >> the OS. - The motherboard has a minisas connector, which is connected to > the backplane, and a > >> seperate SATA connector that is intended for an optical drive. I used > that to connect a SSD > >> which lives in the optical drive bay. There is also an internal USB > connector you could just > >> put a USB stick in. - Performance under nexentastor appears OK. I have > to do some real tests > >> though. - It is very quiet. Can certainly live with it in my office. > (But will move it in to the > >> basement anyway. . A nice touch is the eSata connector on the back. It > does have a VGA > >> connector, but no keyboard/mouse. This is completely legacy free... > >> > >> All in all this is an excellent platform to build a NAS on. > >> -- > >> This message posted from opensolaris.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >> > > -- > > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > > ______________________________________________________________ > > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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