Time to update a few general items for a Solarish based ZFS server
Oracle Solaris 11.4
This is the enterprise related ZFS option with native ZFS and a support option up to 2034+
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/long-live-solaris-11-until-at-least-2034-to-be-exact-v2
Up to this year, Oracle Solaris was the most feature rich and the fastest ZFS server in my tests. It comes with native ZFS that supports encryption, sequential fast resilvering, vdev remove (unlike Open-ZFS with support for all vdevs incl Raid-Z), dedup2, SMB 3.1 and NFS 4.1 among other features.
This year 2019 was the changing point feature wise. Open-ZFS now includes encryption, fast sequential (sorted) resilvering, special vdevs, vdev remove (basic and mirror only,) system checkpoints, trim, force ashift and many other features. They are now all in Illumos, the free Solaris fork and therefor in OpenIndiana (that is ongoing Illumos with a huge repository that includes desktop apps) and OmniOS, a storage related distribution with a freeze of Illumos in a stable and long term stable and a commercial support option with often be-weekly security and bugfix updates - perfect for a robust and stable production storage server.
Current version of OmniOS is 151032 with all the new Open-ZFS features, SMB 3.02, many updates related to hardware and Comstar iSCSI
see
Release notes:
omniosorg/omnios-build
Issue tracker:
Issues - illumos
Discuss:
Topicbox
The above enterprise ready Unix operating systems are managed via CLI or you can install a desktop environment (Solaris and OpenIndiana). As an add on, you can use my napp-it web-ui tool to manage all ZFS related items (pools, (special) vdevs, zvols, filesystems, snaps, clones, trim, raid management, share management, enclosure management incl a disk map, smart, remote replication, acl management, realtime monitoring, acceleration with background agents, ZFS clustering etc). You can update/bugfix the OS independently from napp-it updates. There is no lock in between them (or a special hardware environment).
napp-it manuals:
napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Solaris : Manual
New feature in current 19.dev: pool status with all relevant informations:
I will update this from time to time.