Hello Folks, I hope you are doing well! I trying to install Nexenta Community Edition in a server. I downloaded the Nexenta ISO, but I tried to create a bootable USB drive using Rufus and Unetbootin, both applications finished without errors, but the USB drive. Jan 27, 2012  Nexenta and USB Hard Drives. Personnaly I would go for an ext filesystem on the usb drive and use a. You may want to try this with nexentastor. Free Download NexentaStor Community Edition 4.0.1 GA. Such as a USB memory stick or hard drive. To install it. NexentaStor will continue to be available in. Moving Nexenta from HDD to USB stick. Install Nexenta (fresh install) on USB key. Set boot property of the USB drive in the same way than that of your internal.

• Format the partition: Right-click the USB drive partition and choose Format. Select the FAT32 file system to be able to boot either BIOS-based or UEFI-based PCs. • Set the partition as active: Right-click the USB drive partition and click Mark Partition as Active. Note If Mark Partition as Active isn't available, you can instead use to select the partition and mark it active.

Format usb FAT (not FAT32 OR NTFS) Go to an download Imageusb install imageusb software when open • choose the usb unit you want make bootable • SELECT THE ACTION TO BE PERFOMED. Choose option WRITE TO USB DRIVE • SELECT THE IMAGE. When browse to find file image choose the extension option ALL FILES to find your file with extension *.usb • click WRITE and wait until the process finish. Reboot the computer and if everything went ok you are done.

Chris, No, you do not need to format it. The OpenSolaris Live USB Creator takes care of all the formatting.

Format usb FAT (not FAT32 OR NTFS) Go and download x86 usb live media Go to an download imageusb Install imageusb software When open Step 1 choose the usb unit you want make bootable Step 2 SELECT THE ACTION TO BE PERFOMED. Choose option WRITE TO USB DRIVE Step 3 SELECT THE IMAGE. When browse to find file image choose the extension option ALL FILES to find your file with extension *.usb Step 4 click WRITE and wait until the process finish. Reboot the computer and if everything went ok you are done.

I plan to partition both SSDs as 4 partitions (OS, swap, ZIL, L2ARC), put NexentaStor on mirror made of 1st partitions of each SSD, ZIL on mirror made of 3rd partitions, and added both 4th partitions as two L2ARC devices. Then I plan to create RAID-Z2 pool, add ZIL and 2 x L2ARC to it.

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Your USB drive won't be bootable. The most likely cause is that your USB drive is formatted as exFAT or some other unsupported format. You'll need to reformat as fat32 (currently preferred) or NTFS.

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• Just to double check you have the right volume selected, run the ‘list partition’ command. • Then run ‘delete volume’ and exit diskpart. • Download the OpenIndiana USB install image from • Download the OpenSolaris Live USB creator from • Extract it, run it, point it at your USB stick and the USB image, and let it rip. Post navigation.

Hi all, this is my 1st post here, I've been reading some of the topics and I've deiced to try Nexenta, because of the awesome SRP target support. So I'm trying to install Nexenta 4.0.3 CE on a USB stick. I am planning on running the OS on a HP Bl685c gen1 server blade ( AMD Opteron processor Model 8214 / 32gb RAM / 2 x 256gb ssds / 4xddr infiniband mezzanines ), bare metal installation, this will be my NAS for Vmware ESXi Lab and I'm hoping to be able to use SRP target via Infiniband and get to some nice speeds. But I've run into a problem, the server blade doesn't have a CDROM, so I can't figure out how to install the OS. I've already tried to pass through a usb drive to a virtual machine, running on Oracle VirtualBox, so far so good, the installation went through, but when I try to boot from the usb stick, I only get to the 1st screen, giving me the choice to select the safe mode or the 64bit community edition. When I select the 64bit CE the loading begins and after that the machine reboots.

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The problem is, NexentaStor won't partition and drive it uses. So I can't simply 'break' SSDs for some partitions, I need to use the whole SSD drive for one purpose, which is not a good idea since SSD are too big for 'just boot me up' usage. So, the question is: are there any way I can setup NexentaStor with ZIL and L2ARC using 4 x SATA HDD and 2 x SSD?

1 NexentaStor Installation Guide Date: October, 2014 Subject: NexentaStor Installation Guide Software: NexentaStor Software Version: Part Number: 2000-nxs B 2 Notice: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or stored in a database or retrieval system for any purpose, without the express written permission of Nexenta Systems, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Nexenta ). Nexenta TM reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use.

Step 3 - Install Windows to the new PC • Connect the USB flash drive to a new PC. • Turn on the PC and press the key that opens the boot-device selection menu for the computer, such as the Esc/F10/F12 keys. Select the option that boots the PC from the USB flash drive. Windows Setup starts. Follow the instructions to install Windows.

• If the system doesn’t boot, just reconnect the old drive and you haven’t lost anything. • If the system boots, delete the old syspool which is now faulted (since there’s no HDD): zpool destroy syspool (warning, this asks for no confirmation! Be sure you’ve booted from USB!) I got most of it from these guides: • • • Update 2011-12-20: About 1 month after the upgrade the USB key failed; the server wouldn’t boot (stuck at grub loading stage2), so I plugged back the old HDD, scrubbed USB key zpool and it found approx. 1000 errors, of which 500 were unrecoverable. It was not the cheapest USB key (PQI), but the constant swapping or whatever Nexenta’s doing when nobody’s looking must have killed it. Update 2012-05-15 Fixed some errors pointed out in the comment.

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• Boot the old system (disable usb boot) and plug in the USB stick. • Import new zpool on the usb stick as newsyspool (to distinguish from old syspool). • Delete all filesystems in newsyspool using zfs destroy newsyspool/dump (also: newsyspool/swap, newsyspool/nmu everything); this deletes all data on the USB drive — we just need partitions (i.e., ZFS slices). • Make a recursive snapshot of the old (internal HDD) syspool: zfs snapshot -r • Copy entire internal HDD (i.e., syspool) to the USB stick: zfs send -R zfs recv -vFd newsyspool • Set boot property of the USB drive in the same way than that of your internal HDD. Get the latter with zpool get bootfs syspool (this shows old bootfs property, e.g., syspool/rootfs-nmu-000). Then set the former (newsyspool on USB drive) with zpool set bootfs=new syspool/rootfs-nmu-000 newsyspool • Set noatime=off to disable writing a timestamp on every read: zfs set atime=off newsyspool • Disconnect your internal HDD, set bios to boot from USB drive and reboot.

Other features include; (if available) – Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu Casper Persistence feature works with FAT32 or NTFS formatted drives. Larger than 4GB casper-rw is possible only when the USB drive is formatted with the NTFS filesystem. NOTE: To add multiple Linux Distributions, System Tools, Antivirus Utilities, and Windows Installers to your USB, try YUMI – Universal USB Installer (UUI) Screenshots Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.8.3.exe – July 29, 2018 – Changes Update to support Quick Save Live, Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, and Hiren's Boot CD PE. Created Disk Cloning and Recovery Tools Category.

This works for me!

• Remove the USB flash drive. Troubleshooting: file copy fails This can happen when the Windows image file is over the FAT32 file size limit of 4GB. When this happens: • Copy everything except the Windows image file (sources install.wim) to the USB drive (either drag and drop, or use this command, where D: is the mounted ISO and E: is the USB flash drive.) robocopy D: E: /s /max: • Split the Windows image file into smaller files, and put the smaller files onto the USB drive: Dism /Split-Image /ImageFile:D: sources install.wim /SWMFile:E: sources install.swm /FileSize:3800 Note, Windows Setup automatically installs from this file, so long as you name it install.swm. Related topics Feedback.

The partitioning of the SSDs for ZIL and ARC can be done from the command line using parted. You would also need to add them to the zpool via the CLI.

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If you're using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.8.3.exe and you still receive Insane primary (MBR) partition notices, Insane primary (MBR) partition. Can’t find myself on the drive I booted from Your USB drive may be improperly formatted, contains more than one partition or MBR, or your BIOS is not properly detecting the USB drive and its firmware needs to be updated. You can try An Error (1) occurred while executing syslinux. If you encounter a message stating An error (1) occurred while executing syslinux.

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My PC wont Boot from my Flash Drive, but supports USB boot! Many Flash Drives ship USB-FDD formatted and some systems will not detect or even boot USB-FDD.

I was successful to do the same setup under FreeBSD, so there is no any ZFS limitation on that (no wonder about). I'm not sure but what if I use Solaris LiveCD to per-partition SSD and try to install Nexentra on it but if it is possible at all? I'd suggest dedicated drives for OS and dedicated disks for data. NexentaStor is software RAID and the loss of an OS disk can be painful. You can combine L2ARC and ZIL, but the class of SSDs you're probably using won't be helpful as ZIL devices.

Instead, install VirtualBox and download the ISO for OpenIndiana. Then create a new VM in VirtualBox and mount the OpenIndiana ISO as the CD-ROM. Then you’ll be able to start the VM and install OpenIndiana. Let me know if you have other questions!