NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.4 released

Nexenta has released new version of their free Community Edition storage appliance NexentaStor. NexentaStor is a ZFS Open Storage appliance with advanced features such as in-line deduplication, transparent compression and replication. NexentaStor CE 3.0.4 release includes many bug fixes to appliance core and management interface. NexentaStor is available as bare metal appliance and [...]

List of VAAI capable storage arrays

I decided to make a list of storage arrays with VAAI support, or at least with known availability timeframe. Information on this page is gathered directly from storage vendors, please leave a comment if you have any updates to this list.

Array When Good Firmware 3PAR Now 2.3.1 MU2 Compellent Q1/2011   EMC CLARiiON [...]

Hitachi Data Systems unveils Virtual Storage Platform

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled successor to their USP high end storage array, new product is known as Virtual Storage Platform or VSP as short. By HDS VSP is first high end storage array to utilize 2.5″ SAS drives which take less space and electricity than more commonly used 3.5″ FC drives. In [...]

QLogic 10GbE CNA driver installation bug on ESX 4.1

While installing ESX 4.1 hosts with QLogic CNA adapters I hit a error which prevented installation of required add-on drivers. I was using "esxupdate" method to install drivers but all I got was message that no compatible installation bundle was found, even though I was using drivers which are were on ESX 4.1 HCL. [...]