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Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Which is the best option: Nexentstor or
From:       Günther <alka () hfg-gmuend ! de>
Date:       2010-11-21 8:27:45
Message-ID: 1140339373.141290356896879.JavaMail.Twebapp () sf-app1
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about Nexenta*

If you talk about the different versions of Nexenta, you must understand the business \
modell of Nexenta Sytems Inc. (nexenta.com), the company behind all of them. It \
similar to Citrix with XEN/ Xenserver or Vmware with free esxi with the free-core \
idea.

Thirst they offer NexentaStor. It's a commercial ZFS-Storage Server (appliance) for \
enterprise needs with support and commercial Plug-Ins. Licence costs are based on \
capacity, support-level and plug-ins. It is for storage-use only and is managed via a \
web-ui or a console config tool (shell-use not supported by service). There is no \
support or recommendation about other services like mail, web or database \
applications.


Second, they offer Nexentastor Community Edition (nexentastor.org). Its the same like \
Nexentastor (new features are often first in Community Edition, so its also someting \
like we know about Solaris and Solaris Express - a little bit of a betatest-stage) \
but without support, without commercial plugins and limited to 12 TB at the moment \
and also limited to storage use.


Third, they offer NexentaCore. Its the base of the above. Its something like \
Ubuntu-Server (most of their apps could be installed by apt-get install) with a \
Solaris Kernel (build 134 with some backported fixes from newer builds). NexentaCore \
is completely free, not limited in any features, capacity or to add other services \
like mail, web or others. But its CLI-only. The Nexenta-Web-UI is not part of \
NexentaCore. If you want to manage it remotely via a Web-UI from your browser, you \
can add my napp-it (but also without support) to do so, just like you can add it with \
Solaris Express 11.


gea
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