Storage magazine has awarded top honors to Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solutions for both enterprise and midrange NAS. EMC and NetApp received lesser marks for their storage technologies. Oracle outperformed its rivals in terms of initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence. More than 3.000 customers have discovered that Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
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"Five- and six-bay NAS cabinets from Iomega, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, and Thecus compete on speed, ease, and business features ..."
Looking for an inexpensive NAS filer? Here are the results as "5 Storage Servers Battle for Business". Even if one of your choices is not of the list you can compare the guidelines and results with you choice to determine if you choice makes sense.
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"Storage connectivity is evolving away from wires and embracing the Internet ... Fibre Channel ... most often used in large data centers for high-transaction workloads, has been on the market for decades ... Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) - an end-to-end protocol for transporting storage I/O block data over an IP network - has matured ..."
Setting up a SAN or NAS may or may not be the solution for you data center now that iSCSI has come into the picture. Here are "10 Reasons Why 10Gb iSCSI Connectivity Wins Acceptance in Data Centers". One of the big reasons is that iSCSI is open standards-based and you avoid vendor lock in.
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Last year, Tomi Hakala wrote an article describing how to use NexentaStor to create an NFS share on a commodity x86 box and make that share available to vSphere. Those steps with version 3.0 are still the same with version 3.1:
Install NexentaStor; obtain a unique key; enter key
Create a ZFS volume
Create a folder
Configure NFS Server (use NFS v3)
Note the mount point in which folder is available to NFS client
Open vSphere Client and mount NAS datastore
NexentaStor 3.x is a major release, with many new features, improved hardware support, and many bug fixes over the older Developer Edition including:
In-line deduplication for primary storage and backup
Free for up to 18 TB of overall raw storage capacity (i.e. sum of all ("raw") disks sizes, excepting logs, caches and spares)
Supports easy upgrade to future Community Edition releases and to Enterprise Edition licenses
Support for user and group quotas
The ability to automatically expand pools
NexentaStor 3.x Community ISO CD images can be installed on "bare-metal" x86/64 hardware. VM installed images are also available.
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We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, the top 10 articles were:
What Made Steve Jobs Special
There’s A Network Bottleneck Ahead
Ongoing Battle of SSD, Disk and Tape
Everything Old is New Again
It’s Office Party Time Again
The Straight Scoop
Haste Makes for Problems
True DUH Insight
The Keys are The Key
The Next Evolution
The longer version of this article has list of top ten articles for the last 8 weeks.
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