Nexenta Storage Appliance (NexentaStor) is a software based network attached storage (NAS) appliance that meets the current feature sets of the best of breed NAS, including unlimited snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), NFS v3/v4, CIFS, and easy management of extremely large storage pools. NexentaStor delivers richly featured software in the form of a software appliance that is trivial to install and easy to manage.
NexentaStor Developer Edition: VMware Image will run unmodified on all VMware’s hosted products, including VMware Player, VMware Workstation and VMware Server for Windows and Linux, VMware Fusion for Mac.
Recommended environment:
• VMware ESX 3.x/Workstation 6.x/VMware Server 1.0.4+
• Linux/Windows/MacOSX host operating system
• 1GB of memory (512MB minimum)
• 10GB of free disk space (4GB minimum)
Getting started with NexentaStor Virtual Appliance is very easy – essentially it boils down to unzipping the downloaded image and running it in your preferred VMware environment.
