Freenas vs Omni-os

[Modder man]

Doing a combination of media storage and a flash array for VM's. The media storage is a SMB network share and the VM array is shared via NFS. Not sure if there are any heavy advantages either way, other than the obvious advantage with omni-os in much better support.


I really like that Freenas has the flashing red light when a drive fails. How does omni-OS notify the user of a drive failure?

 

[_Gea]

You cannot compare the two that way.
FreeNas is a webmaged storage appliance based on Free-BSD

OmniOS is a ultra minimal "just enough storage server OS" without any 3rd party software included.
It is a Illumos distribution - a Solaris fork and includes NFS, SMB and iSCSI services from Sun.
It comes as a console only OS without any management tools.

Alerts or backplane management is not included in Illumos/ OmniOS but in the management tools
of appliances that are based on Illumos like NexentaStor or OmniOS/napp-it.

 

[Modder man]

I supposed it should have clarified i am using the napp-it management tools

 

[panfist]

At the risk of sound like an asshole, I really feel like this is one of those questions where, if you have to ask, neither one is the right answer.

Getting something like this right is hard. Either will work. Both will require a lot of time investment on your part. I mean a lot.

Start here, the info here will apply to either OS:

http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/20...design-part-i-purpose-and-best-practices.html