If you use napp-it, please contribute to the further development of a free napp-it ZFS Server.
Do not forget to enter or email the hostname!
We do not request or pay sales-tax due to our state as a small enterprise according to § 19 UStG
See also details and how to place a add at this place..
napp-it ZFS server appliance- Features (napp-it is a shortcut for
Network Appliance it)
=> build your own free and unlimited NAS/ SAN storage-appliance with fantastic features
napp-it ZFS NAS/SAN Server appliance/ Web-UI - features (partly OpenIndiana or NexentaCore only)
- One-Klick Online Installer -ready to run NAS within minutes
- preferred for OpenIndiana but running under Illumian, NexentaCore and Solaris 11 (Express)
- Concept to include this SAN appliance into a vmware virtual esxi Server (esxi 4 + SAN + virtual switch, all-in-one)
more on napp.it-all-in-one
- free to use (also comercially), non free extensions available (ex. appliance replication)
- Comstar iSCSI Management (LU, Targets with Auth, Target Groups, Portal Groups, Target Portal Groups, FCOE)
- Grouping with ZFS host-host replication (autojob)
- Integrated & editable Helppages
- Jobmanagement (autosnap, autoscrub, email status & alert mails; perl scriptable)
- Pool-Benchmarks via bonnie+ (not on Solaris 11)
- Property Management of ZFS-folders
- Service Management (Start, Stop, Restart, Status)
- Share Management of ZFS-folders with optimized settings (ex. ACL and properties)
- Snapshot Management (Systemsnaps and Datasnaps, delete based on date or regex)
- System + Network Settings (hostname, Router, DNS, IP etc)
- User and Group-Management (Solaris and SMB)
- User extendable/ editable menues and actions (language: perl)
- ZFS Management: Disks, Pools, ZFS Folders, Raid Z3, Deduplication, unlimited Snapshots without extra space or time-lost
SSD Hybrid-Storage, Compress, Online Pool-Check with data-refresh =(scrubbing)
- Data Encryption, currently only Solaris 11 (Express)
included services, managed via Web-UI
- AFP Fileserver with Time Machine + Avahi Zero Config (netatalk) if you have Macs
- CIFS/ SMB Fileserver (Workgroup/ AD-Domain mit ACL-Support and Snaps via previous version)
- CIFS/ SMB Fileserver (Workgroup/ AD-Domain with ACL-Support and Snaps via previous version)
- Comstar iSCSI Server
- Database Server with mySQL and PHPmyadmin
- FTP Server
- Ipf Firewall
- NFS Server V.3 and V.4 (Datastore for Vmware esxi)
- Ndmp Backup Server (NCP)
- SSH Server
- Webserver with Apache2 + PHP 5.3, Perl with XAMPP 1.7.7<
Extensions and services available after donations to support further development
napp-it ACL management (on development) - 60 Euro per year
network-ZFS replication between appliances (beta) - 100 Euro per year
Consulting/ answering questions per email without guaranteed reaction time - 300 Euro per three months (up to 30 processed emails in this time)
donations are without tax (Mwst). After a donation you will get an email to acticate the extensions
Target users
- Distributors
- University and Educational use
- Developper
- SOHO
- Home
- Enterprise use, yes but without support
Preinstalled or supported hardwaree
- currently not available. NexentaCore/ Openindiana/ Opensolaris will run on many current systems
- If you want to sell ZFS Server with napp-it, see menu preconfigured
included tools
- unzip
- mc (midnight commander)
- rsync
- netcat
- smartmontools
- iperf net-benchmarks
- bonnie++ pool-benchmarks
Limits
- Capacity: no limit
no need for expensive hardware raid-controller (jbod), growing datapools by adding extra controllers or disks
- Costs: none (NexentaCore/ OpenIndiana and napp-it are free)
- Service and Support: only on special agreements (but you can change to NexentaStor without problems if needed)
- Stable releases: depends on OS, napp-it: continuous development, use at own risk
Setup your appliance with all these services and tools
- Step 1: Install NexentaCore, OpenIndiana or Solaris Express 11 (from Boot-CD on real Hardware or virtualized on a
vti-d capable esxi Virtual Server to passthrough SAS-controllers and disks to NexentaCore to have full ZFS disk-control)
- Step 2: Login as root (or adminin and su) and enter:
wget -O - www.napp-it.org/nappit | perl
- Step 3: Its like a well known ad: - there is no step 3 -Your NAS is ready
Installer will first do a snapshot of your system.
On problems, you could boot from this snapshot.
Connect your webbrowser with your appliance
- http://ip of your appliance:81
basics of napp-it
- napp-it-core is a copy and run appliance software (perl) to build a user editable and extendable Web-UI on nearly any Computer
more on napp.it-core
- napp-it allows the use of CLI-commands from your Operating System in a very comfortable way
- ZFS Server is developped for free NexentaCore but runs also on OpenIndiana, *Solaris* and Eon
- about 1 MB in size, requires no RAM during normal server operation
- napp-it ZFS Server includes all services, tools, menues and actions to build and manage a Web and NAS/SAN appliance
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