Nexenta Storage Appliance is designed and built to operate as a 2nd tier storage alongside pre-existing commercial storage, providing online continuation of data for months and years, with tapes relegated to archival purposes only. The appliance is targeted for 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications requiring extremely low cost storage as well as dramatically simplified provisioning, expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. It can also be used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at closer to commodity pricing. It supports unlimited snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), and easy management of extremely large storage pools.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
A native CIFS server is included. Major enhancements were made for NFS and CIFS shares. Second tier storage service was extended to support zvols (ZFS block devices). zvols and snapshots now have better integration. New features in the management GUI include support for NFS and CIFS shares, zvols, pagination, searching, log viewing, and multiple enhancements. Additional management functionality was added to the iSCSI target. Rsync and FTP shares were revised and enhanced. The User Guide was extended and updated.
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