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Implementing SMB File Services on Cisco HyperFlex Using NexentaStorWhite PaperPlease click the link below to view the Cisco White Paper.View Now Cisco HyperFlex and NexentaStor VSA White PaperWhite PaperIn this white paper, you will gain valuable insight into how Nexenta and Cisco have partnered to help enterprises grow their businesses by providing complementary NAS and hybrid public cloud capabilities. Included are details on the certification process, configuration, and best practices when deploying this solution.Download Cisco HyperFlex and NexentaStor VSA Solution BriefSolution Brief NexentaStor: VMware Best PracticesWhite PaperNexentaStor: VMware Best PracticesThe document provides guidance on configuring NexentaStor systems to include:Best practices and recommendations for deploying VMware vSphere 5.x with a NexentaStor 4.x ArrayTuning options and deployment methods for NFS and iSCSI protocols in production environmentsVMware cluster recommendations for high availability and load balancingUtilizing vSphere API Array Integration with NexentaStorDownload File Services for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution BriefSolution BriefRevamp your SAN, All-Flash Appliance, or Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with Nexenta's software-based file services storage solution. In the solution brief, you will learn more about how Nexenta can easily leverage your existing storage investment to extend your storage to a number of essential use cases.Download Nexenta Backup & Archive Solutions BriefSolution BriefData is a critical asset for your organization. You need to make sure users can always access that data, and protect it so that it retains integrity and can be restored in the event of a system problem. In this solution brief, you will learn more about how Nexenta's enterprise software-defined solutions are ideal for your end to end backup or archive business needs.Download NexentaStor and Seagate SSDs Solution BriefSolution BriefNexenta and Seagate have partnered to certify and validate our mutual technologies to support your businesses all-flash business requirements. In this solution brief, you will hear more about the performance, scalability, and the turn-key drives these solutions to deliver.Download NexentaStor and NexentaFusion Product GuideSolution GuideThis guide provides a thorough understanding of two of Nexenta's leading Software-Defined Storage solution, NexentaStor and NexentaFusion. In this guide, you will review the learn more about the high-level solutions, deployment scenarios, use cases, and rich enterprise feature set, including the data protection aspects of these solutions.Download Customer Service and Support Product GuideSolution GuideWe are committed to providing an excellent customer experience, including the responsiveness and quality of support that you would expect from the leader in enterprise Software-Defined Storage. In this guide you will learn more about Nexenta's complete service and support offering including Support Resources, case severity categories, added support offering, and more.Download Software Defined Datacenter for Dummies GuideSolution GuideSoftware Defined Data Centers For Dummies, Nexenta Special Edition, shows you how recent advances in Software Defined Storage (SDS) and software-defined networking (SDN) can work for you as you attempt to unify your systems into a consistent and well-formed architecture.Download Getting Started with NexetaCloud Solutions GuideSolution GuideDeploying NexentaCloud and NexentaFusion in AWS provides an enterprise-class unified storage solution built for the public cloud. This document will walk through the configuration steps from preparing your AWS environment to the deployment of

View Edition Branch Office SolutionWhite PaperUser experience continues to take on greater importance with today’s knowledge workers having increasingly demanding expectations about the speed and reliability of their desktop sessions. Many knowledge workers have a choice and may elect to use desktop virtualization or optionally use a corporate laptop or a BYOD notebook option. For desktop virtualization to increase its share and acceptance among knowledge workers and power users, the end user experience must remain competitive which implies, for instance, better than 5 milliseconds (ms) IO latency.Download Forrester Total Economic Impact StudyWhite PaperThe Total Economic Impact Of A Nexenta-based Storage SolutionA Case Study Focused On Software-Defined Enterprise StorageForrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Nexenta-based storage solutions to enterprise storage environments. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of NexentaStor on their organizations.Download NexentaStor: iSCSI Multipath ConfigurationSolution GuideThe purpose of this document is to provide recommendations and configuration instructions for setting up iSCSI multipathing on both a NexentaStor Enterprise appliance and various common client operating systems. This document provides sane standardized configuration options.Download NexentaStor: iSCSI Security Using CHAPSolution GuideSecuring LUNs accessed via iSCSI is accomplished by using Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol, or CHAP authentication. There are two flavors of CHAP authentication: unidirectional and bidirectional. The goal of this paper is to walk through the setup and understand the concepts around LUN masking in iSCSI.Download NexentaStor: ZFS Performance GuideSolution GuideThis document helps end users understand Nexenta and the sizing of storage appliances. This paper walks through all the necessary knowledge needed for sizing storage nodes. Tuning an appliance should not be necessary if hardware is sized correctly for the workload. Once in a while, we might hit a few cases that require some tuning. However, 99% of the time, if the hardware is sized correctly, no tuning is necessary.Download

Today Nexenta announced that their user community is growing in record numbers. The Nexenta User Community is a forum for thousands of IT professionals to discuss that latest software-defined storage solutions (SDS) and gives them the ability to work with new open source releases unavailable anywhere else. Participation in the Community drives Nexenta’s OpenSDS innovation, architectures, solutions, and software and hardware platforms.Today Nexenta announced that their user community is growing in record numbers. The Nexenta User Community is a forum for thousands of IT professionals to discuss that latest software-defined storage solutions (SDS) and gives them the ability to work with new open source releases unavailable anywhere else. Participation in the Community drives Nexenta’s OpenSDS innovation, architectures, solutions, and software and hardware platforms.According to Nexenta, the community has over 100,000 Nexenta Community Edition solution transactions at no cost, over 46,000 users, and over 10,000 questions and comments. The members and users on comprised of storage professionals that engage in discussion relating to OpenSDS issues and leading practices. Not only is the community a forum for topics of interest (the latest forum is for NexentaStor on OpenStack), the community also provides early-access for upcoming software releases, news, white papers, social content, and a renewed plug-in development program.The latest software release is for the NexentaStor Community Edition version 4.0.3. The release is available today for community users and the next generation of NexentaStor will be released to the community in the next few months.Nexenta User CommunityDiscuss this story

What is Unified Storage?A unified storage architecture ensures that all protocols (file storage, block and soon object) can be supported from the same pool of storage, with the same set of data reduction, data protection, data management and multi-site replication services managed and operated in one consistent way.Why Unified Storage from Nexenta?Being delivered as a software only solution further increases flexibility and consistency, eliminates hardware lock-in, facilitates migration of data and services to public cloud, significantly reduces storage costs, and generally simplifies storage management and scaling.NexentaStor is the industry’s leading software-defined storage (SDS) platform, built on a unified storage architecture to deliver full-featured block and file services on bare metal, in private cloud, or in the public cloud. How Nexenta Delivers Unified StorageNexentaStor file services support NFSv3, NFSv4 and SMB 2.1 and SMB 3 protocols, including advanced features such as SMB 3 encryption, SMB 3 persistent handles and SMB 3 transparent failover. This allows NexentaStor unified storage to provide high performance, high available file based storage services to VMware and Hyper-V virtualized environments.The NexentaStor SMB service runs inside the kernel, allowing tight integration with the underlying file system native support of NFSv4 style Access Control Lists for user access and permissions. This makes the solution particularly powerful in mixed Unix and Windows environments where the same file system must be concurrently shared over NFS and SMB to Unix and Windows users.For even more complex file share environments, NexentaStor supports Multi-Tenant File Services allowing a single system instance to be configured

The NexentaFusion instance to deploying NexentaCloud and the corresponding EBS storage neededDownload NexentaStor: HPR User GuideSolution GuideThis document demonstrates how to configure High Performance Replication (HPR) to replicate datasets using the NexentaStor Command Line Interface (CLI). The NexentaStor High-Performance Replication (HPR) feature is an extension of the snapshot-based data protection.Download NexentaStor Adds NAS Capabilities to HCI and Block StorageWhite PaperAdd Software-Based NAS to Extend Your InvestmentNexenta’s solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. As companies adopt new enterprise architecture options that include block-only storage and hyper-converged infrastructure to improve performance and simplify deployments but over time there is a need to expand the workloads but run into challenges due to not having file based storage services.Download NexentaCloud for Hybrid Cloud StorageWhite PaperMichael Richtberg, a Nexenta Advisory Board member discusses Hybrid Cloud computing, challenges, and how NexentaCloud solves them.In this white paper, you will learn more about what Hybrid Cloud Computing is, the pros and cons, why it matters to your enterprise, and ultimately how NexentaCloud leverages the benefits and solves the issues.By reading this paper you will learn:Using public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for hybrid cloud computing provides several benefits.Why Hybrid digital transformation makes pragmatic sense for many organizations.How NexentaCloud opens up your storage and data management possibility to best accommodate your needs for flexible data location and expansion.Download Nexenta extends SDS into the cloud while enhancing its management platformReportThe company has expanded its portfolio of SDS products to reach further into the cloud while continuing to capitalize on next-generation workloads like containerized applications.Global research and advisory firm 451 discuss their findings on Nexenta as they expand their product portfolio to the cloud in this report. This reports covers the challenges, context, and strategy behind Nexenta as a company and particularly with the release and entrance into the public and hybrid cloud space. Download the report below to read more.Download Enterprise Strategy Group Nexenta and HGST Solution ShowcaseWhite PaperOptimize IT with Storage Infrastructure AgilityLeading Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Scott Sinclair discusses how competing in today’s digital economy demands improvements in IT agility, flexibility, and capability. In response, IT organizations have begun to modernize their storage infrastructure with software-defined storage (SDS) technology.The flexibility and agility delivered by SDS through hardware independence can offer a more optimized and effective infrastructure. Nexenta, a leader in software-defined storage, is partnering with HGST, a Western Digital company and a leader in storage hardware innovation, to develop agile infrastructure for the demands of the modern digital business.Download Web Support: VPS Benchmarking White PaperWhite PaperIn this report, WebSupport presents their latest benchmarking results comparing their VPS platform based on Nexenta with a variety of local and global Cloud competitors. They provide details on random writes,network availability, download speeds and more in this in depth report.Download Software-Defined Storage for a New Generation of ITWhite PaperSoftware-Defined Storage for a New Generation of ITA new set of storage technologies, referred to as software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, has emerged to offer not just enhanced