Does this exist?
My thoughts:
My thoughts:
- I can do everything but the "web based UI" using pretty much any Linux distribution and tgtd. This is my current setup, but I would prefer having a GUI, even if all it really adds is easier monitoring.
- ZFS sitting below a virtualized block storage layer does not give great performance. In addition, I have very capable hardware RAID which protects my data enough. I don't need the checksum, snapshot, etc., features of ZFS.
- Even without ZFS, I don't need something like TrueNAS, etc., because I want nothing but storage. I don't need a hypervisor or containers. I know I could sort of ignore those features, but sometimes those projects assume you are going to use those features, and configure some settings based on that. And, sometimes the project uses those features internally, and you can't disable them.
- QuantaStor can do block storage without ZFS, but only in a 3-node Ceph cluster (at least according to the docs). If I'm wrong, this is probably my solution of choice.
- StarWind SAN and NAS free version could work, but it's legacy software, which means it might not support the hardware I have (or get in the future).
- StarWind Virtual SAN free does not appear to have the option to install on bare metal, although the paid version seems to have this option.
- I just learned of XigmaNAS, which I had not heard of before. It seems to be another possibility.