Nexenta Storage Appliance offers advanced feature sets for NAS in software form. It offers best-in-class capabilities to match other top NAS products.
The product is designed and built to function as a 2nd tier storage alongside pre-existing commercial storage. It provides continued online data for months and years, and tapes are only relegated for archival purposes. The appliance is tailored for 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications that require low-cost storage with simplified provisioning, expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. Nexenta Storage Appliance can also work as a primary NAS for businesses that want to expand at a closer commodity price.
Nexenta Storage Appliance can save users up to 80% compared to proprietary products, and it leverages industry-standard x86/64 servers and readily available commodity hardware. The product simplifies storage deployment by running Nexenta Storage Appliance on x86/64 hardware, server blades, or common virtualization platforms. Control is in the hand of users with an open-source base, open standards, and community participation that allows for faster feature integration, better quality assurance, and the freedom to create custom solutions.
This release of Nexenta Storage Appliance has a few new features, which include the addition of dynamic volroot to support the mounting of volumes at arbitrary mount points, additional interfaces for NMV, an IBM ServeRAID SATA (IPS) driver, and the integration of a patch to write throttle results in excessive delay. In addition, many bugs were fixed.
In conclusion, Nexenta Storage Appliance's excellent features, ease of use, and low cost make it a great option for businesses looking to build an efficient and cost-effective NAS. It is ideal for businesses that want to expand at commodity pricing while having complete control over their storage. The new features on this release are excellent, and the elimination of bugs means a more stable platform for businesses.
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