topic Re: Openfiler on Nimble Storage in Application Integration

Openfiler on Nimble Storage

avs46 — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:06:11 GMT

Does anyone use Openfiler virtual NAS (www.openfiler.com) or SoftNAS (www.softnas.com) with NimbleStorage?

Re: Openfiler on NimbleStorage

rugby0134 — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:17:49 GMT

I personally haven't seen these in use, but I use a CentOS image to has NFS in one lab setup, and WIn 12R2 to have SMB and NFS in another lab. CentOS is free and it's been very stable.

Re: Openfiler on NimbleStorage

avs46 — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:02:37 GMT

My only problem using full OS as a File Server is patching.

Re: Openfiler on Nimble Storage

wen35 — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:19:22 GMT

I second Kevin's recommendation - you could run centos or RHEL as vm on esx, to export nfs shares backed by nimble volume. XFS can be used as oppose to ext4 as it provides higher scalability. And vSphere HA provides simple HA for the vm.

Re: Openfiler on Nimble Storage

rlovett51 — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:24:41 GMT

Hi Alex, I've used SoftNAS since the day it was released. Very solid product, granted I've only used it as a basic CIFS fileserver with AD integration. I run the VMware version within our UCS/Nimble vSphere environment.

-Ray

Re: Openfiler on Nimble Storage

edayeh69 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:01:15 GMT

Hi Alex,

I would say try them both and see which one you prefer. In terms of compatibility, there should be no issue since they are virtual appliances. How many users will you be serving and how much data are you hosting?

Regards,

Ezat