napp-IT for dummies
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Setup of a Solaris based ZFS filer with napp-it
This means basically
1. Select supported hardware. Most critical are HBA and Nic
Common are cache/raidless BroadCom HBA 930x and 9400 with IT/IR firmware or other with Jbod mode and Nics from Intel or Chelsio
Solaris based ZFS systems have quite the lowest resource needs for a ZFS filer.
2 GB RAM is enough for any poolsize without dedup. RAM above depends on use case for caching and performance.
Minimal OS disk size is 16GB, suggested is 30GB +2x RAM size to allow seamless updates with former OS states as bootable bootenvironments.
2. Install a Solarish distribution of choice like an OpenSource Solaris fork OmniOS, OpenIndiana or Oracle Solaris 11.4
(Oracle Solaris is commercial but Solaris 11.4cbe is free for noncommercial/demo use)
3. Add napp-it (web-gui for easier management), console as root
Basic Manual see
More manuals
www.napp-it.org
This means basically
1. Select supported hardware. Most critical are HBA and Nic
Common are cache/raidless BroadCom HBA 930x and 9400 with IT/IR firmware or other with Jbod mode and Nics from Intel or Chelsio
Solaris based ZFS systems have quite the lowest resource needs for a ZFS filer.
2 GB RAM is enough for any poolsize without dedup. RAM above depends on use case for caching and performance.
Minimal OS disk size is 16GB, suggested is 30GB +2x RAM size to allow seamless updates with former OS states as bootable bootenvironments.
2. Install a Solarish distribution of choice like an OpenSource Solaris fork OmniOS, OpenIndiana or Oracle Solaris 11.4
(Oracle Solaris is commercial but Solaris 11.4cbe is free for noncommercial/demo use)
Downloads
illumos based server OS with ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, Bhyve, KVM and Linux zone support
omnios.org
3. Add napp-it (web-gui for easier management), console as root
wget -O - www.napp-it.org/nappit | perl Basic Manual see
More manuals
napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Solaris : Manual
napp-it.org - ZFS NAS SAN Server with user editable web-gui // All In One server = virtualized ready to run ZFS-Server
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