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Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Which is the best option: Nexentstor or
From:       Edward Martinez <mindbender_1 () live ! com>
Date:       2010-11-21 17:37:40
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On 11/21/10 08:27, Günther wrote:
> 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
       Thanks gea,  for you time to tell me about  about nexenta, I'm  
have been very happy with nexenta core 3  on a few systems of mine :-)

       Regards
       Edward
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