Nexenta offers scalable software-defined storage solutions ideal for businesses seeking flexibility and performance in data management. Nexenta's features are tailored for efficient integration, making it suitable for companies looking to optimize their storage environments.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Nexenta | 1.7% |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage | 10.5% |
| DataCore SANsymphony | 6.6% |
| Other | 81.2% |
Nexenta is recognized for delivering robust software storage technologies that enhance data efficiency. Users appreciate its seamless integration capabilities with existing IT infrastructure and support for a diverse range of hardware configurations. Nexenta's focus on open-source technology aims to reduce costs while providing ample customization options for enterprises. The range of storage solutions offered addresses the needs of businesses in dynamic IT environments, fostering a more adaptable approach to data management.
What are Nexenta's most important features?Nexenta implementation proves beneficial in industries such as finance, healthcare, and media, where data storage performance and security are critical. Its ability to integrate with different technologies allows businesses in these sectors to streamline operations and focus on data accessibility and protection.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L3 Storage Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I use Nexenta for file systems as its NAS solution is flexible and secure, featuring Fusion. It's a well-established, updated product with resolved SMB issues. I prefer it over Panzura, despite Panzura's superior snapshot feature. |
| Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees | 2.5 | Initially, this SAN offered great value and performance, consolidating our workloads effectively despite needing tweaks. However, support deteriorated significantly. I would now advise exploring newer storage options instead. |
It's for file systems. It's a NAS solution, and it has flexibility. There shouldn't be any outages because if one node goes down, the other nodes take over and take care of everything.
It has a feature called Fusion that makes it more secure and productive than Panzura.
Fusion is the only best feature, but it's a very good feature.
Nexenta is a very old product. Nexenta is a well-established product used in the UK, US, India, Dubai, Qatar, and other countries. It is very good. The interface is up to date. Everything is up to date. The OS version was recently upgraded to 5.5 FP3.
AI features:
DataDirect Networks owns Nexenta and has won awards for AI. They continuously work on AI features. DDN also has a product called Tintri Infinia with AI features. And NVIDIA product also has AI features. I look forward to working on those products.
There were some SMB issues, but they were resolved in the latest version. Four to five customers faced intermittent issues with the SMBs. So, it got resolved in version 5.5 FP3.
In future releases, I look forward to more AI integrations.
I have been using it for more than two years.
It is a stable product.
Scalability is good. It's flexible or scalable. It is very good compared to Panzura. So even better than Panzura in terms of scalability.
The customer service and support are better than Panzura.
Positive
In terms of support. Panzura is a good product, but I would choose Nexenta.
It's not that one is better than the other. Each product has its features and stability. I have worked on both, and I like Nexenta.
Even Panzura has better features than Nexenta. For example, the snapshot feature is better in Panzura for recovering data.
It's easy to deploy. It's the same as Panzura in terms of deployment.
Maintenance will be required. Only updates, upgrades, firmware upgrades, drive upgrades, things like that. There were some SMB issues, but they were resolved in the latest version.
One person is enough for the deployment.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I would recommend using it.
At the time, it was a great way to get a proper SAN solution for a good price. We would have paid double for an EqualLogic system with 1/100 of the performance. With ZFS caching, we could handle over 20,000 IOPS on this system. The Dell solution cost $30,000 more and could only handle around 6000 IOPS.
Allowed us to consolidate our server and VDI workloads onto one storage system without any issues.
Lots of tweaks had to be done in order to get everything working right, and support is now outsourced and horrible.
Five years.
Not really. No unexpected downtime.
No.
At first, I would give it a 10 out of 10. Now, I would say more around two out of 10.
It’s easy, if you are familiar with ZFS already. If not, it's still pretty easy.
It's better to look at some of the newer storage companies (Tegile, Tintri, etc.).
