Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta management interface on the General Stats Running Richard Elling’s zilstat.ksh via SSH at the top left Running the arcstat.pl by Mike Harsch via SSH at the left And at the bottom left, you can glimpse the VMware Data Recovery job running on a 40GB VM (Initial run). I also took the opportunity to screenshot the disk and...

In this post, I will describe the storage design I use for my virtual infrastructure lab. I have been using the Community Edition of NexentaStor for the past two and a half year already. And I can tell already in the first paragraph of this post, that it’s a very impressive storage solution, which can scale to your needs and based on the budget you are ready to allocate to it. I have played with various virtual storage appliances (VSA) from NetApp and EMC, and I used Openfiler 2.3 (x86-64) prior to moving to NexentaStor in my lab over 2.5 years ago. I was not getting the storage...