Recent content by Alex Skysilk

ZFS # LinuxMD. The argument is somewhat disingenous; ZFS deals with data both at block and LVM level, while Linux MD is strictly block level. Linux MD is not aware of the data on the file system, nor is it capable of dealing with any fault with it leaving any such functionality to the file...

I dont know if NAS distributions need to be on your nas, BUT- Rockstor is maturing nicely, and can do things that ZFS based distros cant (heterogeneous disk raid groups, RAID growing/rebalancing, linux.) For your PXE- Acronis/PING/clonezilla. Hiren/UBCD

There is more content written on the subject then a lifetime of concentrated reading would allow. The first and most obvious question that you'd want to address is why? What is ESXi not doing for you, or not well enough, or ? There is a reason that all of those products exist, and they all...

All good posts, but its hard to make suggestion/performance recommendations since OP did not specify what the application is. You have a TS140 with either a dual or quad core CPU, with somwhere between 4-16GB of ram. Based on the discussion, you want to: 1. Use it as a bare metal hypervisor...