[Cialug] Which software to use for a SAN

[Dave Weis]

Can you tell more about what you (or anyone else) is doing with VDI?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. Bailey
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 10:43 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Which software to use for a SAN
> 
> We're currently looking at NexentaStor to serve up NFS to our 
> ESXi servers used for VDI. Looks fairly decent from my 
> testing inside a VM (waiting for proper hardware to test it 
> on). Dedupe and support are the main reasons we're looking at 
> NexentaStor (although it looks like FreeNAS may do the same with ZFS).
> 
> 
> -Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Weis" <djweis at internetsolver.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 5, 2010 10:31:30 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Cialug] Which software to use for a SAN
> 
> 
> Need to start putting together some arrays with 4+ TB of 
> backups on them. 
> 
> Not sure whether to use Nexenta, Openfiler, or FreeNAS. Will 
> probably be using software raid and want to have SMB support 
> as well as being able to run vmware images on them.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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