So thanks in large part to STH, Patrick, and the folks in the forums (props for the nice Solaris/Napp-it tutorial Nitrobass), I've gotten a crash course in setting up my own micro datacenter. My Intel E3-12xx series Xeon system (with Vt-d - who knew how useful that could be??), I've got Solaris Express 11 with Napp-it running under ESXi amd have passed-through my LSI 2008 disks to it for network storage (samba?). Is there some faster way to share other than SMB?
Anyway, now that I've been able to play around a bit with my new setup, my real question is regarding encrypted volumes on ZFS. Using Napp-it, I've created several pools, and on one pool I've created a volume with encryption turned on. So it seems like I can lock and unlock the encrypted volume from the Napp-it web GUI. Unlocked I can mount the volume remotely. When it is locked, I cannot.
I think I am missing something here - meaning, there's got to be an easier way to lock/unlock the volume outside of using the Napp-it web interface. Is there? Does it ever auto-lock, or as long as the server is powered on, does it stay unlocked. I am not sure what the encryption buys you, other than security when the server is powered off. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance...
Anyway, now that I've been able to play around a bit with my new setup, my real question is regarding encrypted volumes on ZFS. Using Napp-it, I've created several pools, and on one pool I've created a volume with encryption turned on. So it seems like I can lock and unlock the encrypted volume from the Napp-it web GUI. Unlocked I can mount the volume remotely. When it is locked, I cannot.
I think I am missing something here - meaning, there's got to be an easier way to lock/unlock the volume outside of using the Napp-it web interface. Is there? Does it ever auto-lock, or as long as the server is powered on, does it stay unlocked. I am not sure what the encryption buys you, other than security when the server is powered off. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance...