farscapesg1
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My OpenIndiana server is driving me nuts and on it's way out. Something got corrupted during an update and it has been limping along since then. For whatever reason, the server rebooted last night or this morning and anytime it restarts, if I don't select a previous boot snapshot, Napp-it, Comstar, and other services are broken. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Solaris is extremely limited, so trying to troubleshoot has taken me forever and gotten nowhere.
At this point I feel my best option is to rebuild using a spare Xeon X3440 and Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard (slight upgrade to my current X3430). Will also be going from 16Gig RAM to 32Gig. My original plan was to switch over to Linux because Crashplan has a supported client. However, in the meantime I installed the client on a windows system and have it backing up, so that is less of a priority at the this point.
At this point, I need to decide on a new OS and I'm not really sure what the benefits/costs are for each of them. My current server is connected to my ESXi hosts via iSCSI using fiber cards, to provide storage for VMs. It also houses 6 3TB drives that serve for file storage. When it comes to any of the OS's, I'm equally incompetent with all of them Solaris seems to have the newest features (improved resilvering), but technically is only to be used for development/testing unless purchased. OmniOS seems to be the most streamlined/simplified OS for ZFS at the moment. Linux gives me the flexibility of being able to install additional services on the server also (torrent/usenet software, Plex media server, SageTV PVR, Ubiquiti Unifi controller, etc.).
Obviously, I'm leaning more towards Linux but I just wanted to make sure I got a good list of pros/cons between the options. The decision to keep the storage server separate or to make it a VM on a 3rd R710 host I have as a spare will come later. Especially since that decision depends on spending money on external HBAs, a SAS expander, and cables.
At this point I feel my best option is to rebuild using a spare Xeon X3440 and Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard (slight upgrade to my current X3430). Will also be going from 16Gig RAM to 32Gig. My original plan was to switch over to Linux because Crashplan has a supported client. However, in the meantime I installed the client on a windows system and have it backing up, so that is less of a priority at the this point.
At this point, I need to decide on a new OS and I'm not really sure what the benefits/costs are for each of them. My current server is connected to my ESXi hosts via iSCSI using fiber cards, to provide storage for VMs. It also houses 6 3TB drives that serve for file storage. When it comes to any of the OS's, I'm equally incompetent with all of them Solaris seems to have the newest features (improved resilvering), but technically is only to be used for development/testing unless purchased. OmniOS seems to be the most streamlined/simplified OS for ZFS at the moment. Linux gives me the flexibility of being able to install additional services on the server also (torrent/usenet software, Plex media server, SageTV PVR, Ubiquiti Unifi controller, etc.).
Obviously, I'm leaning more towards Linux but I just wanted to make sure I got a good list of pros/cons between the options. The decision to keep the storage server separate or to make it a VM on a 3rd R710 host I have as a spare will come later. Especially since that decision depends on spending money on external HBAs, a SAS expander, and cables.