Hi,
For some years I have been running WHS 2011 on an HP Microserver. It has worked well for serving files and acting as a music server. Now it seems time to replace WHS 2011 and I'm looking for advice on which operating system to choose. The microserver has 16GB ram and five 4TB disks.
For quite a while I have considered buying new hardware and running a virtualised environment with a virtual firewall (pfSense) and all of the other services being virtualised. But I kept going round in circles and finally decided to delay the whole idea. The reason is that I ran out of network ports on my switch and my ISP's router was blocking my SIP traffic. So, I have purchased a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X as a stop gap.
Now I have decided to install a new operating system on the microserver but don't know which to choose. My requirements are:
1. Serve files to Windows, Linux and Mac machines
2. Serve Music to a number of Squeezebox players and DLNA players
3. Download email from the Internet and serve that to various devices
Anyone have any suggestions on which operating system to choose? I was going to use FreeNAS as I like the idea of ZFS but there is no LMS (Squeezebox Server) plugin available. So now I don't know which direction to go.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Leo
For some years I have been running WHS 2011 on an HP Microserver. It has worked well for serving files and acting as a music server. Now it seems time to replace WHS 2011 and I'm looking for advice on which operating system to choose. The microserver has 16GB ram and five 4TB disks.
For quite a while I have considered buying new hardware and running a virtualised environment with a virtual firewall (pfSense) and all of the other services being virtualised. But I kept going round in circles and finally decided to delay the whole idea. The reason is that I ran out of network ports on my switch and my ISP's router was blocking my SIP traffic. So, I have purchased a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X as a stop gap.
Now I have decided to install a new operating system on the microserver but don't know which to choose. My requirements are:
1. Serve files to Windows, Linux and Mac machines
2. Serve Music to a number of Squeezebox players and DLNA players
3. Download email from the Internet and serve that to various devices
Anyone have any suggestions on which operating system to choose? I was going to use FreeNAS as I like the idea of ZFS but there is no LMS (Squeezebox Server) plugin available. So now I don't know which direction to go.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Leo