NexentaStor 5.5.0 FP1 and NexentaFusion 2.0.5
DDN News, Wednesday, May 10,2023
NexentaStor 5.5 is a Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform delivering full featured block and file services for Enterprise applications. NexentaStor software can be deployed as a full storage operating system on standard x86 servers as a high-performance alternative to traditional storage appliances, or on ESXi virtual machines for virtual NAS services complementing hyper-converged clusters.
NexentaStor 5.5-FP1 now supports Lenovo SR650V2 platform.
The following lists the supported features in NexentaStor 5.5:
Protocols
- File: NFSv3, NFSv4, SMB 2.1, SMB 3.02, SMB 3.1, SMB 3.1.1
- Block: Fibre Channel, iSCSI
- Object: S3
Configurations
- Single node on bare metal
- HA clustered nodes on bare metal
- ESXi virtual storage appliance on vmdks
- HA clustered ESXi virtual storage appliances on vmdks
Data Management
- Striped mirrors, single, double, and triple parity RAID
- OpenZFS end-to-end data integrity
- Snapshots and clones
- Inline data reduction
- Thin provisioning
- Scheduled replication
- Continuous replication
- Storage Quality of Service
- Multi-Tenant File Services (NFS & SMB & S3)
- Standard send/receive to/from any OpenZFS System
Management
- Self-documenting REST API, CLI, NexentaFusion
Client OS Support
- VMware, Microsoft, Linux, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes
Ecosystem Integration
- VMware VAAI Block
- VMware Virtual Volume (VVOL) 2.0
- VMware Site Recovery Manager (FC, iSCSI, NFS)
- VMware vCenter Plugin
- OpenStack Cinder & Manila
- Docker Volume Plugin
- Kubernetes Persistent Volume Plugins
NexentaStor supports a wide selection of certified reference architectures (RAs), fully defined configurations that feature components from leading server vendors. See the HCL.