Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance functionality abstracted via Nexenta Management Server (NMS) and available remotely via API with following language bindings: C, C++, Perl, Python and Ruby: http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-api And another cool feature worth mentioning is - plugin architecture. There is no API for plugins available yet, but there are number of CDDL-licensed plugins available as an examples here: ?http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-plugins Nice!