May 7, 2010 
[Or "my quest for the ultimate home-brew storage array."] At my day job, we use a variety of storage solutions based on the type of data we’re hosting. Over the last year, we have started to deploy SuperMicro-based hardware with OpenSolaris and ZFS for storage of some classes of data. The systems we have built [...]
Tagged as: Deduplication, Hardware, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, SuperMicro, ZFS
Read the full article → November 8, 2009I recently came across Nexenta’s WORM plugin for their commercial storage system, which is based on the OpenSolaris kernel and ZFS. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the term, WORM means ‘write-once read-many’ — in other words, after it’s written it cannot be modified, but can be read any number of times. I’d [...]
Tagged as: Nexenta, Open-source, Storage, ZFS
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