Nexenta 4.0 CE Released

Nexenta 4.0 CE Released with many enhancements.

NexentaStor delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default.

NexentaStor is Software Defined Storage with SMARTS: Security, Manageability, Availability, Reliability, (lower) TCO, and Scalability.

 

Simpler

• Scaling to petabyte system capacities
• Seamless handling of intermittently faulty devices
• Guided wizards for system setup and configuration

Faster

• Over 50% reduction in HA failover times
• 4X faster performance
• 512GB dynamic read cache per head
• Native SMB 2.1 support in addition to NFS, FC and iSCSI

Stronger

• Redesigned periodic asynchronous replication
• Illumos kernel integration
• Deeper VMware, Windows, and OpenStack integrations

Features

High Availability

• Active/Active controller with automated failover
• Dynamic disk pools and RAID-Z1, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3
• Periodic Asynchronous Replication
• Unlimited Snapshots and Clones
• Thin Provisioning

Reliability

• 100% data integrity by ZFS end to end 256-bit checksum
• ZFS copy on write functionality
• Self-healing mechanism
• Enterprise-grade operating system

Simplicity

• Simplified GUI- and CLI-based administration
• Extend to all data services
• Embedded analytics
• SNMP support

Scalability

• From tens of Terabytes to Petabytes
• Limited only by the available hardware

Virtualization Integration

• OpenStack Cinder
• VMware
• Microsoft Windows and Hyper-V

Plugins

• HA Cluster
• FC Target
• Performance Tools

You can find more information on Nexenta website