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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hmm,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve been using FreeNAS for the last 9 months as a store for several Vmware Hosts..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Has performed great, and ZFS is solid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fábio Rabelo<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 22, 2013 9:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> Marco Gabriel - inett GmbH; pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PVE-User] SAN recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2013/8/22 Marco Gabriel - inett GmbH <<a href="mailto:mgabriel@inett.de" target="_blank">mgabriel@inett.de</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Nexenta CE may only be used for testing, not allowed for production.<br><br>If you go for a cheap but reliable SAN, look after Promise VessRAID machines.<br><br>If you don’t want to spend any money, have a look at freenas which is pretty nice, full featured and uses ZFS in the back.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Almost a year ago I have similar doubts and ( bad ) adventures trying to use Freenas and nas4free, and it only gave me lots of head aches !!!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>My advice is forget about it, with ZFS is just not stable ( my record was 5 days before weird and inexplicable freezes ! ) .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>With native BSD file system works OK, but the performance are realy poor .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>People in this list pointed me to a stable solution :<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This :<br><br><a href="http://omnios.omniti.com/">http://omnios.omniti.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>plus this :<br><br><a href="http://www.napp-it.org/">http://www.napp-it.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>6 mounths up and running smoothly and rock solid !!!<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I am using nfs with dedicated switcher, the performance are excelent ...<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Fábio Rabelo<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>