3.1 Documentation

This is your resource for documentation on NexentaStor 3.1, its plug-ins, applications, adapters, and release notes.


NexentaStor 3.1 Product Documentation

NexentaStor Release Notes

This document contains important changes and necessary upgrade procedures for updating to NexentaStor 3.1.

NexentaStor Installation Guide

Initial NexentaStor installation and configuration manual.

NexentaStor User Guide

The NexentaStor 3.1 User Guide contains basic NexentaStor terminology, NMV and NMC managing instructions, provides the information about basic NexentaStor functionality.

NexentaStor Installation via PXE Boot Guide

Document describes the procedure of installation via PXE boot.


NexentaStor 3.1 Reference Documentation

NexentaStor NFS Concept and Reference Guide

This documentation provides an overview of NFS concepts and reference information. This will help your organization understand the environment necessary to optimally deploy NexentaStor in a VMware ESXi 5 environment.

Best Practices: Using NexentaStor for VMware Customers

This guide lists recommendations and guidelines for deploying and configuring NexentaStor storage in your high availability VMware vSphere environment.

Best Practices: NexentaStor Microsoft Windows Active Directory Integration v1.0

NexentaStor features Windows Active Directory Integration for security policies on shares, files and directories. Windows 2003 SP2 and Windows 2008 SP2 Server are both supported for Active Directory Integration.

Best Practices: NexentaStor iSCSI with Windows Server Failover Clustering

This documentation contains the configuration recommendations and best practices for Microsoft Windows 2008 Failover Clustering Service using NexentaStor HA (High-Availability) Cluster as highly available storage for CIFS shared folders.


NexentaStor 3.1 Plug-ins

NexentaStor Auto-CDP User Guide

Remote block-level mirroring with Auto-CDP plug-in.

NexentaStor AutoSmart User Guide

AutoSmart plug-in installation and configuration user manual.

NexentaStor Auto-Sync User Manual

Auto-sync plug-in configuration manual.

NexentaStor Cloud Archive Plug-in User Guide v1.0

The Nexenta Cloud Archive plug-in is a NexentaStor plug-in which provides automated backup and restore capabilities for NexentaStor volumes to and from the specified cloud storage.

NexentaStor Configuration Change Management User Guide v1.0

Confguard plug-in installation, configuration, and main functionality description.

NexentaStor HA Cluster User Guide v2.5

Documentation on how to install and configure the HA Cluster plug-in on NexentaStor.

NexentaStor Namespace Cluster User Guide v1.2

Introduction to Namespace Cluster and main functionality description.

NexentaStor Simple Failover

Instructions on how to set up a failover of the block-mirrored volumes over IP network.

NexentaStor StorageLink User Manual v1.0

NexentaStor Adapter for Citrix StorageLink installation and configuration user manual.

NexentaStor Target FC

NexentaStor Target FC plug-in introduction and main functionality.

NexentaStor Target FC and Host Multipathing

Introduction to FC Multipathing and basic setup instructions.

NexentaStor VMDC User Guide

Documentation on how to install and configure Virtual Machine Data Center (VMDC) plug-in with all supported virtualization platforms.

NexentaStor VMware Recommendations


NexentaStor 3.1 APIs

NexentaStor REST-API User Guide

Concept and description of NexentaStor REST requests.

NexentaStor Storage Appliance API

Instructions on how to build new and extend existing management services, management clients and applications on top of NexentaStor.

NexentaStor API and Developer Resources

View the Developer Resources page to get information on NexentaStor Storage Appliance API (SA-API) or the NexentaStor SDK for Linux to download tools that can be used to extend NexentaStor capabilities or use the appliance for custom applications.


NexentaStor 3.1 Certification

NABAT Certification User Guide

User guide for partners. Provides information on how to perform all the NexentaStor automated certification tests.

NexentaStor Certification Results Template

A template for partners to fill up the certification tests results.