July 15, 2011

03:57 pm NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Best zRAID / configuration for 9 or 10 HDDs?

Redundancy groups? What do you mean?

July 14, 2011

12:20 pm NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Best zRAID / configuration for 9 or 10 HDDs?

In my environment, the larger problem with the ZIL failing is the horrible NFS performance that we would experience. ...

01:12 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Best zRAID / configuration for 9 or 10 HDDs?

Matt,
If Im not mistaken, you wont lose your writes in the event of a ZIL failure unless the system also crashes bef...

01:06 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Best zRAID / configuration for 9 or 10 HDDs?

Sean,
I would recommend 5 mirrored volumes with 2 drives each.

July 13, 2011

04:04 pm NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Best zRAID / configuration for 9 or 10 HDDs?

I think the best configuration for random I/O would be mirrors. The more the better. Since you would have a ZIL and s...

July 08, 2011

04:51 pm NexentaStor Project Help: RE: How to cofigure NFS for vSphere 4?

Why dont you post some information about your Nexentastor environment? Specifically, hardware and vdev structure. Any...

June 21, 2011

10:23 pm NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Nexentastor 3.1

Im sure its not really available yet despite what the press release says.

June 10, 2011

12:50 pm NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: CIFS deny read/write for all except domain users

When you right click on the share from a windows machine on the domain what does the ACL look like? Do you see "every...

May 27, 2011

11:12 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: Possible to resilver 2 separate vdevs simultaneously?

I have 12 vdevs with 4x2TB SAS drives in each vdev. Each vdev is RAIDZ1. The problem I have is that two drives from s...

May 17, 2011

07:51 pm NexentaStor Project Help: RE: Issue with XenServer VMs using nextenta storage via NFS

Check the number of NFSD's that you are running on the nexenta, but honestly, if there was a problem, you would see s...