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Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

May 7, 2010
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[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

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nexenta/opensolaris on a dell 2850 with drac 4 – virtual media issues

November 3, 2009

I recently tried installing both OpenSolaris and Nexenta Core Platform on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a DRAC4 card. The installation process goes fine, but when rebooting into the installed OS the kernel goes into a loop of trying to reset an ATA device (‘Bus Reset’ errors — if I have a chance, I’ll repeat [...]

Tagged as: Dell, Hardware, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Storage

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Sun adds block-level deduplication to zfs

November 2, 2009
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I’ve been eying ZFS for quite some time. I love the concepts of the filesystem, but am still not a huge fan of Solaris/OpenSolaris (I miss my apt-get, and am just used to the many Linux/GNU-isms.) I may actually have to give it a closer look (most likely via Nexenta, which is essentially Ubuntu with [...]

Tagged as: BackupPC, Deduplication, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, Sun Microsystems, ZFS

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