On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider >> nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage. >> It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system with web management, able to >> export cifs/nfs/ftp/sftp/iscsi with support for snapshots, >> deduplication, compression, etc. I haven't used it beyond installing in >> a VM and going through some options, but it looks more capable than >> anything else I've seen for free. > > Thanks for the info, it looks quite interesting and seems like a > simpler option given the claim of easy setup wizard doing things in 15 > minutes. > > The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than > the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on > a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources, > the failover delay of a few seconds will cause certain services/apps > to fail/lock up. Not an issue for the immediate need but will be a > major no no for the other project I have in the pipeline. So install Nexenta CP2/CP3 then. That's completely free and ZFS has its own web interface...