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Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade

Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Server upgrade
From: "David Dyer-Bennet"
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:21:30 -0600
On Thu, February 16, 2012 11:18, Paul Kraus wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:42 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm seriously thinking of going Nexenta, as I think it would let me be a
>> little less of a sysadmin.  Solaris 11 express is tempting in its own
>> way
>> though, if I decide the price is tolerable.
>
>     I looked at the Nexenta route, and while it is _very_ attractive,
> I need my home server to function as DHCP and DNS server as well (and
> a couple other services would be nice as well). Since Nexenta is a
> storage appliance, I could not go that route and get what I needed
> without   into it.

Ah, that might be a problem.  Not those specific services currently, but I
do now and then run things.  MRTG, maybe Nagios, are on the list to do
(though it's so much harder to get anything like that going on Solaris,
I'm tempted to run a linux virtual server; that would be on the same box
though, so still a problem).

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