I am somewhat comfortable with Linux / opensolaris command line options but not very good.
I am trying to build a Storage based on ZFS, the specs are:
- Dell 670 Machine with 4 Hard Drives (SATA and IDE)
- I have downloaded and created Open Indiana USB and can boot live and install
- I have also seen napp-it (http://www.napp-it.org/index_en.html) and have installed it on Oracle Solaris Express (Personal Home PC)
I am a bit confused and have a few questions:
- Boot / Install Disk is separate, and I have extra 4 attached internal Drives, when I do the installation how do I form a Pool including all 4 drives?
- If I go the napp-it way (which seemed easier to me) and form a pool of all 4 drives via web gui, how can I share it to my Windows machines over the network, I have two iMac (Apple OSX) as well.
- Is there a document I can read about ZFS and how to handle / maintain it?
- Any other recommendations you think will help?
I am really tempted to install zfs NAS on openindiana and will be grateful if some expert can provide a step by step either command line or napp-it web gui – including setting up sharing with windows, osx clients.
Best Answer
about 1: Install OpenIndiana on a single disk (mirroring is not supported by the base installer, if you need, you have to do later)
2. Create your pool when OpenIndiana is running
3. If you use napp-it, you can create pools with the pool-menu and share folders via the share menu (just klick on a ZFS-folder - share smb column) among other management tasks like disk, pool, share acl, job, snap and replication management.
4. If you want to share your folder via afp and napp-it (fully supported by the Web-UI) you need to run the napp-it online-afp-installer first. See this pdf.