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Apr 30

Nexenta storage for the vLab

Posted by erik on 30 Apr , 2012 in Technology, ZFS | 4 comments
Nexenta storage for the vLab
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...

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