14 DAY TRIAL // NexentaStor Community Edition, a software project based on Solaris that provides enterprise-class storage solutions, has just reached version 4.0 and is now available for download.
People are getting used to receiving news about various Linux-based solutions, but they forget that there are other operating systems out there, like Solaris for example. It's not the most famous one, but it's an extremely reliable system and it's usually being used in serious enterprises.
NexentaStor Community Edition is a Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform that allows users all around the world to transform their storage infrastructure and, according to the developers, it 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.
“This latest version of NexentaStor delivers significant performance, reliability and functionality improvements to the award-winning SDS solution, having passed through rigorous engineering, customer and partner testing with flying colors.”
“NexentaStor will continue to be available in two editions: Community Edition (free, full-featured, community supported software for configurations up to 18TB), and Enterprise Edition (licensed by the size of the storage pool). NexentaStor 4.0 is Citrix and VMWare Ready and certified to run on a variety of reference hardware configurations from strategic technology and channel partners,” reads the official announcement.
As you can imagine, the normal NexentaStor solution is not a free one, but the Community Edition provides a good example of what to expect.
NexentaStor Community Edition 4.0 promises a lot of features. For example, it should be able to scale to petabyte system capacities, the handling of intermittently faulty devices is almost flawless and the users shouldn’t be able to notice anything, and the software is accompanied by wizards for the system setup and configuration.
In theory, NexentaStor Community Edition 4.0 should provide over 50% reduction in HA failover times, up to four times the performance over the previous version, 512GB dynamic read cache per head, native SMB 2.1 support in addition to NFS, FC and iSCSI, much better periodic asynchronous replication, illumos kernel integration (illumos is an open source Unix OS based on OpenSolaris), and deeper VMware, Windows, and OpenStack integrations.
If you choose to download NexentaStor Community Edition 4.0, you also need to know that the developers are also providing Citrix XenServer and VMware images.
More details about this interesting software storage solution can be found in the official announcement. Download NexentaStor Community Edition 4.0 right now from Softpedia.