Posts Tagged ‘ZFS’
Installing and Configuring napp-it and OpenIndiana
This article is the first in a multi- part series featuring napp-it. For those that do not know what napp-it is, it is a free NAS / SAN web interface for Solaris derivatives. That is a big deal because it takes one of the most ...
Install OpenIndiana on ESXi 5.0 for All-in-One ZFS Server
Today we are looking at how-to install OpenIndiana on ESXi 5.0 in order to make an All-in-One ZFS server. The basic premise of this method is that one can utilize a virtual machine, passing through SAS controllers with VT-d or ...
Install Illumian on ESXi 5.0 for All-in-One ZFS Installation
One topic I get a lot of questions about is creating an All-in-One ESXi 5.0 machine with ZFS storage based on Illumian, Nexenta, and Solaris 11 Express all alongside guest operating systems. For those not familiar with the conc...
STH RAID Calculator v1.05 – Big Update Including ZFS RAID-Z, RAID-Z2 and RAID-Z3
Last week we launched the ServeTheHome RAID Calculator and it has been quite a success and we received a bunch of feedback on it. This week we have incorporated much of that feedback and turned the RAID Calculator into a much m...
Storage Tiering: A Primer on Cost-Effective Tiered Storage and Caching
One thing that virtually every major storage player and enterprise has been using for the past few years, and is continuing to use, is a tiered storage approach. This is mainly due to the fact that lower capacity, higher-cost d...
Create a NexentaStor VMware ESXi Virtual Machine
This is a simple guide to creating a VMware ESXi virtual machine for NexentaStor. Actual OS installation is very easy and will be covered in another piece. Just over a year ago I created The Big WHS on a platform of Windows Ser...
ZFSguru 0.1.7 (final) Released
ZFSguru is a new FreeBSD based storage platform that was started by a FreeBSD and ZFS enthusiast to make an alternative to FreeNAS that tracks closer to a full-blown FreeBSD installation. Over the past few months, quite a few e...
Mesa ZFS Web Interface Benchmark/ Stress Test 0.1.7-Preview2
This preview release has all the functionality of the first preview (0.1.7-preview), but in addition has the following changes: The Mesa ZFS Web Interface/ ZFSguru benchmark has been recently updated since my last post on the M...
Mesa ZFS Web Interface Benchmark/ Stress Test 0.1.7-Preview
I often get questions regarding good ways to stress test home servers, especially new drives. As part of the in-development FreeBSD 8.x based Mesa ZFS Web Interface, sub.mesa has released 0.1.7-preview of the interface with a b...
ZFS Safe? NetApp and Oracle Agree to Dismiss ZFS Lawsuit
On September 12, 2010 NetApp and Oracle agreed to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit over ZFS and WAFL. The original suit was filed by NetApp accusing then Sun Microsystems’ (which Oracle recently acquired) ZFS file system of inf...
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