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Re: [Xen-users] Storage Recommendations

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Storage Recommendations
From: Chris Petrolino <cpetrolino@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:43:15 -0400
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It's a Shame that the openfiler folks have seemingly allowed the product to get 
a bad name with a lot of people in the opensource community. Its a great 
solution with a ton of features but it has some really weird bugs.

Kind Regards,

Christopher James Petrolino


On Sep 24, 2011, at 12:27 PM, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would recommend building a ZFS style storage solution.  You could use the
> free Nexenta Community Edition as the software.  Nexenta Community Edition
> now allows for up to 18TB of storage.
> 
> Here is an article from a year ago at Anandtech about building your own ZFS
> storage:
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/3963/zfs-building-testing-and-benchmarking
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Castro
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 6:50 AM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Storage Recommendations
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are going to buy some NFS storage for 6-8 VMs on a single host, but
> want to expand to a second host.
> What storage recommendations would you give if you have between 2000
> and 5000 USD?
> 
> How about nexenta? what hardware would you use? any vendor?
> 
> Experiences with openfiler and opennas?
> 
> Thanks for the responses.
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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