I've been reading into ZFS quite a bit lately and see the ZFS guru web UI which is a plus for me, but i'm wondering if i should even attempt since i know squat about linux in general. Right now i have about 18TB of data on a WHS machine and was considering moving to either ZFS or grab a hardware raid card with server 2008 R2. I don't have much experience with server 2008 R2 either but i think i could figure out how to join it to my already setup active directory and then map shares from there when users log in here at home. My main concern however would be backups, thats the biggest feature about WHS i like, its saved me numerous times. Was also wanting to use it to experiment with like iSCSI i think it is, boot some of the PC's off the network storage vs having a HDD in the computer(HTPC is first that comes to mind)
If i were to decide to go to server 2008 R2 how hard would it be to setup for network shares that i can grow dynamically if need be using the expand function on the raid card, and then how much is involved in setting up remote disks for computers? Also what kind of hardware requirements could i be facing, right now i have an e6700 CPU in it with 4gb of ram(could upgrade to 8 if needed) and it has dual NIC's that are teamed(just no jumbo frame support).
And as a last question, is there any site or books you guys might recommend that covers basic like windows server stuff, i've setup DNS, DHCP and AD so far but i'm wanting to learn more storage stuff with it and i'm drawing a blank. Also want to incorporate exchange server into this more as practice but will use it if i can get it setup.
Hope one of you smart people can help a noob!
If i were to decide to go to server 2008 R2 how hard would it be to setup for network shares that i can grow dynamically if need be using the expand function on the raid card, and then how much is involved in setting up remote disks for computers? Also what kind of hardware requirements could i be facing, right now i have an e6700 CPU in it with 4gb of ram(could upgrade to 8 if needed) and it has dual NIC's that are teamed(just no jumbo frame support).
And as a last question, is there any site or books you guys might recommend that covers basic like windows server stuff, i've setup DNS, DHCP and AD so far but i'm wanting to learn more storage stuff with it and i'm drawing a blank. Also want to incorporate exchange server into this more as practice but will use it if i can get it setup.
Hope one of you smart people can help a noob!