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On 14/03/15 15:53, Matt Stevenson wrote: > Gordon found your response enlightening and helpful am grateful. > I may consider looking the Linux compatibility layer for FreeBSD. > Although would prefer Linux and self configure, as really looking to > offer SMB and AFP data in an office so was looking at Netatalk on Linux > for AFP. > > Found this page highlighting the Linux - FreeBSD differences. > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html > > The Hardware links you supplied me with were excellent too thanks. > > Matt Glad to help - if you really want the best of all possible worlds (ha! Leibniz reference!) then go crazy and build yourself something like this: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272 You'll end up with an ESXi hypervisor and virtualized ZFS SAN on a Solaris derivative: from there you can trivially export your ZFS pools via AFP, CIFS, NFS and use it for iSCSI/FCoE targets, etc. The ESXi instance can also use the ZFS SAN as it's datastore for hosting more VMs for task specific purposes - build a Samba4 Linux host or a Win 2k12r2 VM for AD, install a virtualized OSX server for centralized time machine backups, an OpenBSD router, etc - all in one little box with full COW snapshots, rollbacks and automated backup procedures. This particular howto focuses on building all this on a low cost HP Microserver but I've already started building versions of this at work on much bigger hardware - proper HP ProLiants and Dell blades with masses of cores, RAM and disks and they are by far the coolest and most versatile systems I have ever had the pleasure of working on. Once you've got your initial ESXi instance up, everything else lives on the virtualized ZFS SAN that you then re-export back to ESXi via NFS: build a few of them and lash the VMWare hypervisors together into a HA cluster for added fun, and then you can even automate your ZFS send/receive pool backups between the cluster members. Here in the UK it can sometimes be tricky to find decent channel resellers but I've got a bit of a thing for SuperMicro Fat Twin blade systems - the newest ones have NVME support so you don't have to go through the pain of reflashing your RAID card into IT mode: just hook up a bunch of fast disk and install a load of PCIe-attached flash for your ZFS ZIL/ARC caches and away you go. http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/FatTwin.cfm Not the cheapest, but you can stick an insane amount of power into a very small space these days. Cheers PS: Don't use AFP for talking to Macs unless absolutely unavoidable - even Apple are deprecating it now and recent OSX release perform considerably better via CIFS or even NFS. AFP blows, and always has done! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq