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OpenZFS on Windows v 2.4.1 pre release available https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases/tag/zfswin-2.4.1rc1 Main improvement of 2.4 are around hybrid pools - special vdev is used as slog for sync writes - special vdev can hold zvol data - special vdev can hold metadata of a...

OpenZFS on OSX and Windows, current state: OpenZFS on OSX 2.3.1 released https://openzfsonosx.org/ improvements around Raid-Z expansion, vdev rebalance and Fast Dedup OpenZFS on OSX 2.4 release candidate improvements around performance and management Check known issues prior use and report...

Your options with preconfigured hardware Synology=Linux + SAMBA SMB server + btrfs + web-gui with many apps Main alternative with similar approach is Qnap with ZFS and often better hardware Other Options based on your own/any hardware Proxmox=Linux with ZFS, optimimized for VM usage but can be...

Virtualizing the whole OS (container, zones or full OS) with independend SMB services on each instance where each offers different shares with access to the same ZFS pool is always an option. The overhead especially regarding complexity, security and bug fixes is massive.

main problem with zones is that some actions are only possible in the global zone but Illumos has improved NFS and SMB in zones.

each solution has its advantages and disadvantages.

You cannot use several instances of the kernelbased SMB server and bind shares to ip adresses in OmniOS. It may be possible when you use SAMBA in OmniOS with hosts allow und hosts deny. But then you loose ntfs alike ACL, SMB groups with groups in groups, Windows sid as ACL reference and...

The smb server is listening to related ip ports. You cannot have another service listening to the same ports, does not matter if it is in a zone. As there is no option to control singe shares based on ip, you cannot do what you want. What you can do is to control smb at all based on client ip...

Some infos I have found for SMB Direct (NAS with up to 10GByte/s) - cheap Server 2019 with SMB Direct server - Howto setup 25-100G SMB Direct with or without switch https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/zfs-on-osx-and-windows.43829/page-5#post-495171 and infos about NVMe tuning on...

While I am still waiting for a howto for a working Linux ksmbd server with SMB Direct/rdma and Windows clients, there are many infos for a troublefree working ultrafast Windows Server NAS setup with SMB Direct and up to 10Gbyte/s: SMB Direct/rdma and Windows Server (cheap Windows 2019...

OmniOS r151056k (2026-01-14) Weekly release for w/c 12th of January 2026. https://omnios.org/releasenotes.html This update requires a reboot Security Fixes Curl updated to version 8.18.0. The bhyve mouse driver could de-reference a NULL pointer in some circumstances. Other Changes...

Windows Server has some genuine advantages like SMB Direkt (rdma nics > 10G), Active Directory with worldwide unique ntfs ACL and groups in groups, extra server services, better Storage Spaces Management, usability and some more. For Soho, Windows Server Essentials is best for up to 25 user...

You can try napp-it cs, a copy and run multi-os, multi server ZFS storage web-gui that runs on Free-BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX and Windows (Storage Spaces and OpenZFS). For the host backend in a multi server setup you only need Perl. Setup on any Linux similar to Proxmox...

If your "array" is a single disk raid-0, there is a good chance that you can access your data simply when connecting to onboard sata. You need an sas controller only for sas disks and then any sas controller should work. The LSI based ones are preferred and any should work for single disk...

You can assign 3 media types to disks in SS: hd, ssd and scm. With them you should be able to create a 3-tier auto tiering. btw I prefer "ZFS tiering" based on recsize, small blocksize and datablock/filesize. Much easier to setup and it works without moving data around btw Dell/ Microsoft...

napp-it licence update napp-it se (Solaris Edition) and napp-it cs (client server edition, multi-os/ multi hosts, up from v.26) can be used for commercial, edu and noncommercial use cases for free to manage the local storageserver.. For noncommercial homeuse, napp-it cs can be used to manage...

Did you try to use 192.168.1.0/24 as ip adress for a nic? This would be not possible as 192.168.1.0/24 is a subnet adress not a nic ip. Valid ip are 192.168.1.1-253

The AI boost makes RAM and disks currently very expensive with prices will go up even more. If possible prefer SSDs with powerloss protection, otherwise check dwpd or max write values. If you cannot get one at a good price, use what is on offer. It may be not as fast or must be replaced...

LVM on ext4 has one advantage, this is a slightly lower write amplification compared to Copy on Write ZFS. This can be a plus with cheap desktop ssd (what you should avoid anyway) In all other aspects (performance due a superiour ZFS read/write caches, VM security with sync, checksums for...

Hot/cold tiering is part of the Storage Spaces functionality. Server edition or ReFS is not required but you need Powershell or a web-gui like napp-it cs to configure tiering on Windows 11. I hope for OpenZFS on Windows where special vdevs allow faster realtime raid with a quite perfect tiering...