December 18, 2012

09:25 am NexentaStor Project Beta: RE: New Public Beta: NexentaStor Community 4.0 milestone 20

Any suggestions for running it in a VM? I can play with it today if I can spin it in vmware, but will have to wait u...

December 04, 2012

10:53 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: How to rename a ZVOL ?

I do not believe that you can rename a zvol. You can change the description (human readable format) but I do not bel...

October 24, 2012

12:12 pm NexentaStor Project Performance discussions: RE: Sizing question - for ESX iSCSI

Depending upon the activity on those VM's, it's going to be extremely oversized, with lots of caching doing the heavy...

October 10, 2012

09:34 am NexentaStor Project Systems: RE: Trying to design universal storage

We've got a similar chipset board running Nexenta CE without any problem, and I believe that there are beta drivers o...

09:17 am NexentaStor Project Performance discussions: RE: performance adjustment.

What is the working set size? I would bet that the ESXi host is doing some local caching and you're not actually mov...

September 18, 2012

06:36 am NexentaStor Project Help: RE: Installation Problem

Have you tried unloading the ISO image? Sounds like VMware is not obeying the boot order. I've installed on ESXi 5....

September 17, 2012

07:55 am NexentaStor Project Newbies - Welcome: RE: Community Edition

Last time I checked, community was iSCSI or NFS/CIFS only. I haven't installed it recently though to confirm.

07:51 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Low cost, fast and reliable ZIL device

Very interesting thought process here. I think it would work well during production usage, but I have a feeling reco...

September 14, 2012

08:44 am NexentaStor Project Help: RE: NAS timing out

You may want to see if you have VAAI turned on. I seem to remember that there was some issues with VAAI and NexentaS...

September 11, 2012

08:09 am NexentaStor Project Help: RE: Areca 1882iX-24 not detected

If it's not on the HSL, it's dicey. I don't see any Areca boards on the HSL, but that doesn't necessarily mean they ...