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I recently installed Solaris 11 x86 text install ( http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen) to be used as a file server running ZFS.

I noticed that I'm given the bare minimum in terms of packages. Is there an official oracle web GUI for managing ZFS? I ran a netstat and it doesn't appear to have installed any webserver that's listening. I saw something from a couple years ago, but apparently it's not packaged or maintained anymore

I tried pkg install network-console, but it says that the package isn't available for my platform.

Any ideas? I'd like to stick with Oracle Solaris instead of the open source alternatives, if possible.

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I don't believe you have any options that will drop-in on your existing installation.

For manageability, I'd look at the free or commercial offerings from Nexenta/NexentaStor or napp-it.

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I feel like we answer variants of this question often on Server Fault.

You can do all of this with NexentaStor's commercial offering, using either asynchronous replication (ZFS Send/Receive over ssh/netcat or rsync) or synchronous replication (with another commercial plugin).

There are vendors who package and certify these setups with custom hardware. The easiest example is the Pogo Linux Storage Director series.

I personally own a Sun x4540 that used to run OpenSolaris, but is now running Nexenta Enterprise. The Sun hardware is a little sketchy after only two years though, and I've seen found more value in building my own. I'm currently using HP hardware to build single storage nodes, but I can expand to external storage with LSI enclosures. People have documented SuperMicro-based solutions as well. In the HP systems, I'm replacing the Smart Array controllers with LSI 6GB SAS controllers; 9211-8i for internal use, and 9200 for external. You would need to do something similar in the Dell case.

Freebsd – Is it safe to replicate from Solaris ZFS to FreeBSD ZFS

There should be no issue sending a Solaris 10 ZFS v22 snapshot to a FreeBSD server supporting v28. Reciprocally, that saved snapshot, or any snapshot of a clone/descendant of the initial snapshot should be sent back to that Solaris box with no issue as long as you never upgrade the ZFS filesystem on the FreeBSD server.

What matters really are the zfs versions, not the OSes, given the fact the (Open)Solaris code base is used on both sides. Preserving upward compatibility for datasets (filesystems, volumes and snapshots) and pools is likely one of the rules that can't be broken by the ZFS developers.

Note: this somewhat happened in the past but ZFS was still beta: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2008042301

Current zfs manual pages state about the zfs send stream:

       *The format of the stream is committed. You will be able to receive
       your streams on future versions of ZFS.*

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