napp-IT for dummies

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awedio

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Does anyone have a simple. "watered down", easy to use, easy to digest setup guide?
I find the docs to be a lil cumbersome & the UI isn't very intuitive.
 

gea

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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
wget -O - www.napp-it.org/nappit | perl


Basic Manual see

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