Install Nexenta To Usb

I have been running Nexenta CE as my primary homelab storage for the past year or so with various results. I use a combination of both NFS and iSCSI, and present a single NFS mount and a single iSCSI datastore to two ESXi hosts. Soca Xplosion Construction Kits Download Adobe. I have been fairly happy with it, but have had a few issues where the NFS services will sometimes fail every few months or so due to locking issues, therefore bringing down my nfs mounts which is not ideal. Only way, as far as I have discovered to fix it is to clear NFS locks with the following commands in Nexenta expert mode • svcadm clear nlockmgr • svcadm enable nlockmgrnds. I was getting a little tired of troubleshooting this, and so decided to rebuild my homelab storage as a single node Nutanix CE cluster (Can’t really call it a cluster??) and export the storage as a NFS mount to my VMware hosts.

This way I get to both play with Nutanix CE, and also (hopefully) have a more reliable and performant storage environment. The hardware I am currently running Nexenta CE on is as follows • ASRock C2750D4I with 8 core Intel Atom Avoton Processor • 16GB DDR3 RAM PCMHz with ECC (2x8GB DIMMS) • 2x 3TB WD Reds • 1x 240GB Crucial M500 SSD for ZFS L2ARC • 1x 32GB HP SSD for ZFS ZIL • 1x Dual Port Intel NIC Pro/1000 PT The dual port NIC is LACP bonded and used for my iSCSI datastore, while the onboard NIC’s on the ASROCK C2750D4I is used for NFS and Nexenta Management. I decided for the Nutanix CE Rebuild I would do the following changes • Remove the 32GB ZIL Device • Remove the Dual port NIC since I won’t be using iSCSI • Use the two onboard nics for Nutanix CE and export a NFS mount to my ESXi hosts Since I run NFS storage on a separate vlan to the rest of my lab environment, I decided to keep this design and install Nutanix CE on my NFS vlan. Since my switch doesn’t support L3 routing, I added an additional NIC to my virtualised router (PFsense) and configured a OPT1 interface on my storage network. Now my storage network is routable, and I can manage Nutanix CE from any device on my network. To prevent a chicken and egg situation if my pfsense VM goes down, I also added a separate management nic in my desktop on the same NFS vlan for out-of-band management. One issue I had was the requirement to have internet access out from my Nutanix CE installation before you can do manage it, this is required to register with your Nutanix Community account and connect to Nutanix Pulse (phone home).