Comments on: Choosing an Open Storage Operating System

By: Paul Krupa

Paul Krupa — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:54:51 +0000

Thanks for this nicely done piece. Objective and informative.

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Dedicated NAS vs custom minit itx server — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:11:55 +0000

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By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:55:32 +0000

In a discussion on this very topic, Nexenta’s community manager hopped in and confirmed that Nexenta is not free for production use: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/220902-nexentastor-18tb-isn-t-free

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:45:26 +0000

Here is the text from the Nexenta website for the Community Edition: “Production use is not allowed with Community edition. It is designed and intended to help people become familiar with the product or for hobbiest use. Not designed to be run in the enterprise.”

How are we supposed to interpret no production or enterprise use?

By: Bill Roth

Bill Roth — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:43:52 +0000

With all due respect, your read of the Nexenta license is wrong. you can use 18TB for free. not sure what terms you are referring to? Are you referring to the “Commercial use” clause?

By: Asselmesoff

Asselmesoff — Sun, 20 May 2012 10:06:29 +0000

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By: Dimitris Krekoukias

Dimitris Krekoukias — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:13:31 +0000

Howdy, Dimitris from NetApp here…

I actually like some of the choices listed here. All I would caution people to check (if they wanted to use this in production and not at home) would be:

1. Do think about controller clustering – you want to be able to do stuff to your box without taking outages (not the same as filesystem clustering, which is another cool thing to have but which doesn’t always work for all workloads). This does pose some challenges regarding transparent failover, multipathing and how to talk to the actual disk shelves from 2 controllers at the same time.

2. Think about replacing failed drives, is the process to identify them clean and is the process to replace them easy without bringing the system down?

Just those 2 things… I won’t even suggest looking at NetApp storage since whoever is looking at rolling their own probably doesn’t want to spend the dough on ready-made enterprise gear.

But my opinion is that everyone has the same problems, only the scale is different.