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27 Example Questions (1 closed)

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How do I observe pool performance?
added by Peer Feb 22 at 19:31
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Comments deleted: Please do not use comments to answer the questions. Comments are to discuss the merits of the example questions and their suitability to the proposed site. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 23 at 14:06
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How do I setup a NexentaStor demo on my laptop under VirtualBox/VMware?
added by user53181 Feb 22 at 19:58
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Comments deleted: Please do not use comments to answer the questions. Comments are to discuss the merits of the example questions and their suitability to the proposed site. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 23 at 14:06
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Why should I use ZFS mirrors instead of RAID-Z/RAID-Z2?
added by Kirill Davydychev, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:34
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Comments deleted: Please do not use comments to answer the questions. Comments are to discuss the merits of the example questions and their suitability to the proposed site. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 23 at 14:07
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Why should I not use spinning disks for L2ARC or ZIL?
added by Kirill Davydychev Feb 22 at 20:24
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How do I promote a hot spare to become a permanent member of my zpool?
added by Kirill Davydychev, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:19
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How do I get my licence back if I accidently entered the wrong email during registration?
added by user53161 Feb 22 at 19:30
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What NexentaStor configuration can be recommended for a 6 TB home video server?
added by Bill Roth, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:20
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Resilvering is terribly slow, can I speed-up the process?
added by slashdot Feb 22 at 21:18
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How do I get my Mac to see the NFS shares from my NexentaStor?
added by Linda Kateley, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:19
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How do I enable "guest access" to my CIFS shares? (no password prompt)
added by Gordon Ross Feb 22 at 22:06
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How do I get to a normal shell in the appliance? (expert mode) Is that safe?
added by Gordon Ross Feb 22 at 22:10
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I have many disks in my pool, but seemingly my performance is terrible. All disks are in one RAID-Z2 group. Load does not seem heavy, but perf. sucks.
added by slashdot, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:35
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I am trying to decide between SATA and SAS. Which should I choose, and can I mix them?
added by slashdot Feb 22 at 22:26
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How do I install the VirtualBox guest additions for a NexentaStor instance running under VirtualBox?
added by pwags Feb 22 at 19:47
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Why is this proposed community NOT a duplicate of Server Fault? [closed]
added by Kirill Davydychev, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:20
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closed as off topic by warren, WikiSpeedia hang-around, Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 24 at 19:45

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.

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Agree with Kiril – Bill Roth Feb 22 at 20:20
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What are some tools available to quickly check performance of disks?
added by slashdot Feb 23 at 1:32
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What is a good tool to measure the performance of my system?
added by Doug Soltesz Feb 24 at 1:18
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Should we instead propose an "Open Storage" site here? Or even anything illumos - not just storage? (not necessarily Nexenta specific)
added by Gordon Ross Feb 24 at 6:10
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There are periods of time seemingly around the top of the error, when my iSCSI LUNs stop working and my VMs drop because datastore is not available.
added by slashdot, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 18:35
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How do I switch FC / FCoE HBAs into target mode? (The appliance way, no UNIX shell)
added by kofi Feb 22 at 23:35
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How can I save my LUN mappings to restore them later on another box?
added by kofi Feb 22 at 23:41
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How do I determine the proper block size to configure on my NFS share running VMware VMs?
added by Doug Soltesz Feb 24 at 1:31
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How can I configure IPMP?
added by Claudia H. Feb 24 at 14:54
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How can I configure link aggregatons (IP address bonding)?
added by Claudia H., edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Feb 24 at 22:06
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Can I use jumbo frames?
added by Claudia H. Feb 24 at 16:29
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Does NexentaStor provide NFSv4.0 and even NFSv4.1?
added by Claudia H. Feb 24 at 16:37
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For very large pools, what's the best strategy for "scrubbing"?
added by johnj Feb 24 at 18:34
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