'nexenta' Tag

• Supercharge your X4500 Thumper with SSDs

  May 13, 2009

  Hybrid storage pools are the new coolest thing in ZFS land and are being pushed commercially with the recent release of Sun’s 7000 series open storage. For various reasons, Sun has only added a supported SSD option to the X4540 Thor systems. This unfortunately doesn’t help those of us wanting to extend our [...]

  posted in nexenta, opensolaris, zfs by pds

• How to fix a failed apt-clone dist-upgrade on Nexenta unstable

  February 24, 2009

  The current Nexenta NCP 2.0 hardy-unstable repository has some broken bits that prevent a clean apt-clone dist-upgrade from working. A common question on the IRC channel is how to work around this, and I’ve answered it enough times that I thought it best to write up some basic instructions.
  Here’s an example of what happens:

  # [...]

  posted in nexenta, opensolaris by pds

• My ZFS media server

  December 16, 2008

  Every self-respecting geek has a home media server to store their CD and DVD rips, downloaded TV shows, photos, etc. and I’m no exception. I’ve always found it interesting to see what others put together to fill this void, so I’m returning the favor by showing off my current setup:

  The full components list includes:

  Chenbro [...]

  posted in nexenta, opensolaris, zfs by pds

• Nexenta and third-party APT repositories

  April 10, 2008

  NexentaOS has come a long way over the last year, and has recently released Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 which is considered stable. In doing so, the developers are providing a minimal core set of well tested packages somewhat akin to Debian’s netinst that can be used for building up servers or entire distributions. [...]

  posted in nexenta by pds

• Getting Flash 9 with sound on a Sun Ray

  March 11, 2007

  I have a deployment of approximately 40 Sun Rays at work that serve as the primary desktops for our scientists. Currently these Sun Rays are powered by Sun servers running Debian Linux, although I intend to migrate over to Nexenta once key pieces of the desktop catch up. One key piece of software [...]

  posted in sunray by pds

• Jumpstart Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris

  February 5, 2007

  Nexenta currently lacks the ability to do automated network based installs via Jumpstart. The recent alpha6 version added KickStart ability, but it’s limited to CD based installs as far as I know. I am in the process of deploying multiple production machines at work and wanted to leverage my existing Jumpstart framework. [...]

  posted in jumpstart, nexenta by pds