about Nexenta* If you talk about the different versions of Nexenta, you must understand the business modell of Nexenta Sytems Inc. (nexenta.com), the company behind all of them. It similar to Citrix with XEN/ Xenserver or Vmware with free esxi with the free-core idea.
Thirst they offer NexentaStor. It's a commercial ZFS-Storage Server (appliance) for enterprise needs with support and commercial Plug-Ins. Licence costs are based on capacity, support-level and plug-ins. It is for storage-use only and is managed via a web-ui or a console config tool (shell-use not supported by service). There is no support or recommendation about other services like mail, web or database applications. Second, they offer Nexentastor Community Edition (nexentastor.org). Its the same like Nexentastor (new features are often first in Community Edition, so its also someting like we know about Solaris and Solaris Express - a little bit of a betatest-stage) but without support, without commercial plugins and limited to 12 TB at the moment and also limited to storage use. Third, they offer NexentaCore. Its the base of the above. Its something like Ubuntu-Server (most of their apps could be installed by apt-get install) with a Solaris Kernel (build 134 with some backported fixes from newer builds). NexentaCore is completely free, not limited in any features, capacity or to add other services like mail, web or others. But its CLI-only. The Nexenta-Web-UI is not part of NexentaCore. If you want to manage it remotely via a Web-UI from your browser, you can add my napp-it (but also without support) to do so, just like you can add it with Solaris Express 11. gea -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
