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As we now have ZFS on every mainstream OS from BSD over OSX to Windows, I start using ZFS instead FAT on USB sticks or disks as the ultimate solution for data security on such unsecure media to have full checksum verification of data or redundancy with copies=2 There is no automount of ZFS...

Announcement of first beta: https://hardforum.com/threads/napp-it-cs-for-zfs-on-windows.2032935/ Remains testing, remarks and tipps for all the BSD or Linux distributions and appliances and OSX or SmartOS as special cases. Current state: basically working as beta todo: features like...

https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/ VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) is not continued

About Napp-it is a webbased management tool for a ZFS server since the early days of ZFS on Sun Solaris or OpenSolaris. Now ZFS is available on BSD, Illumos (Solaris fork), OSX and Windows where the first release candidate is available now. This gives a unique combination. The original Windows...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Data-Corruption-Battle Illumos ZFS (Solaris fork based on Open-ZFS) is not affected as it does not use Open-ZFS repo directly -> "cherry picking" features after additional tests

If you use one of the affected CPUs in your desktop and more in a server, check for an OS patch and update as soon as possible. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/zenbleed-bug-allows-data-theft-from-amds-zen-2-processors-patches-released

Critical Windows SMB security warning In response to CVE-2022-38023, Microsoft is removing support for RPC Signing in the Netlogon server, instead requiring Sealing when establishing a 'secure channel'. More details can be found here...

Affected ESXi-Version 7.x prior ESXi70U1c-17325551 ESXi-Version 6.7.x prior ESXi670-202102401-SG ESXi-Version 6.5.x prior ESXi650-202102101-SG https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/02/06/vmware-esxi-ransomware-cve-2021-21974/

https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2022

Emergency security update due a very critical bug in sudo https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/27/cve-2021-3156/ https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit...

There is a bug in Windows Defender that allows an attacker to take ownership of a Windows system by simply reading an email or visit a website without any further action. Microsoft Security Advisory 4022344 1252 - MsMpEng: Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows...

I made some tests to get answers about questions like Shared ZFS storage fast enough for a certain video quality SMB1 vs SMB2 mtu 1500 vs MTU 9000 (Jumboframes) NVMe vs SSD vs Disks Raid 0/Mirror vs RaidZ Single user vs multiple user Single pool vs multi pools some fast tests for...

napp-it on Linux I support Linux (Debian7, Ubuntu 12 LTS) up from napp-it 0.9e2L with basic ZFS, disk and job management, monitoring and remote replication from/to Solaris Restrictions: Linux is not my preferred or main platform. Many napp-it features rely on Solaris projects like the CIFS...

We are struggling with Apple 10.8 + OSX server addon + latest Deploystudio. We want to create master images for a Mac or PC (on ESXi) and store them on our ZFS NFS storage to restore them over Ethernet (mainly university pool usage) either via netboot or boot via USB stick on newer Macs...

"napp-it to go": Preconfigured Solaris based ZFS server distribution on USB I have uploaded first betas of my preconfigured and ready to use napp-it USB ZFS server distributions with OmniOS (newest ZFS Version 5000 and LZ4 compress), CIFS, NFS , AFP, iSCSI Comstar and Xampp. -> Download...

OpenIndiana + OpenSource Clustering and HA/ High Availablity added: ---------------------------------- There is now an OpenSource storage cluster available for OpenIndiana. Because this is a really killer feature, i intent to add it into napp-it - although my cluster knowledge is limited but...

OSX 10.7 has moved from Samba to its own SMB with problems on some SMB servers and added changes in the AFP stack. Most Unix/ Linux sever based on netatalk 2.15 have now problems with Lion (AFP and Time Machine) To fix this problem a update of netatalk 2.2 with support for DHX2 is needed...

All-In-One (ESXi Server with virtualized high-speed ZFS-SAN solution in a box) How I have done it Modern IT services are mostly based on Virtualization and SAN Storage servers. Usually you have one or more ESXi servers for virtualization and one or more SAN storage or backup-servers connected...

How to setup a ready to run OpenSolaris derived ZFS Storage Server +configure it + add a WEB-GUI within minutes more: napp-it mini HowTo 1 - setup a ZFS Server How to setup a All-In-One Server - VMware ESXi based + virtualized ZFS-SAN-Server + virtualized network Switch + other...