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Concept
Hardware
Why ZFS
Service SMF
Stop
Tuning
- ready to use and comfortable ZFS storage appliance for iSCSI/FC, NFS and SMB
- Active Directory support with Snaps as Previous Version
- user friendly Web-GUI that includes all functions for a sophisticated NAS or SAN appliance.
- commercial use allowed
- no capacity limit
- free download for End-User
- increased GUI performance/ background agents
- bugfix/ updates/ access to bugfixes
- extensions like comfortable ACL handling, disk and realtime monitoring or remote replication
- appliance diskmap, security and tuning (Pro complete)
- Redistribution/Bundling/setup on customers demand optional
Details: Featuresheet.pdf
Basic guides and How To's
Installation and Setup of napp-it appliances, please read them first
News, Tips and Tricks
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/napp-it-zfs-server-on-omnios-solaris-news-tips-and-tricks.38240/
Napp-it basics
basics.pdf
1 ZFS Design principles
Download 1: zfs_design_principles.pdf
Download 2: zfs_design_principles.pdf
2a. One Pagers for beginners (a page per item)
Download 1: onepagers.pdf
Download 2: onepagers.pdf
2b. Setup SMB shares and ACL
Download 1: solarish_smb.pdf
Download 2: solarish_smb.pdf
2c. OmniOS (Solaris) server and Apple OSX clients
Download: apple_osx.pdf
3. Build examples from home to Petabytes
Download 1: napp-it_build_examples.pdf
Download 2: napp-it_build_examples.pdf
4. How to Setup and update napp-it on OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris or Linux
Download 1: setup_napp-it_os.pdf
Download 2: setup_napp-it_os.pd
5a.The base barebone manual for napp-it:
Download 1: How to and setup.pdf
Download 2: How to and setup.pdf
5.b Installation of the napp-it ZFS server as a embedded ESXi virtualized SAN VM
Download 1: How to setup Napp-In-One
Download 2: How to setup Napp-In-One
and HowTo Setup ESXi
5.c ZFS HA Cluster with storage and service failover SSF of
ip, services, pools, permissions, user and jobs
Download 1: How to setup a HA ZFS Cluster
Download 2: How to setup a HA ZFS Cluster
5.e Local ZFS fileserver + secure Internet access + S3 compatible Cloud storage via minIO
Download1: dreamteam.pdf
Download2: dreamteam.pdf
5.f Cloud-Filer: use napp-it as a local Filer + Cloud S3 in a multiuser environment
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/cloudsync.pdf
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/amazon-s3-compatible-client-server-minio.27524/
S3 Integration as a filesystem sharing option
6. Featuresheet and pricelist about napp-it:
Download 1: Featuresheet.pdf and Pricelist
Download 2: Featuresheet.pdf
7a. Read/Download current Solaris 11.x manuals
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/solaris-11-192991.html
7.b Manuals for Solaris 11.1 (available in different languages) , very good for Illumos (beside encryption)
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502 01/
8. Tuning and other guides
8.1 Performance OmniOS 151034 vs 151036, Disk vs Flash vs Optane,
Intel Xeon silver 4110 vs Epyc 7302, default vs sync and encryption enabled
Download1: epyc_performance.pdf
Download2: epyc_performance.pdf
8.2 Intel Optane 32G/800P/900P NVMe, a game changing technology for faster pools
Download1: optane_slog_pool_performane.pdf
Download2: optane_slog_pool_performane.pdf
8.3 Allocation Classes (special/dedup vdevs): Performance improvements and when to use
Download1: special-vdev.pdf
Download2: special-vdev.pdf
News, bugs, be up to date, join the follwowing maillists (join them, its important)
Illumos-discuss (archive)
OmniOS discuss archive)
optionally
Openinidana dicuss
SmartOS discuss
9. More docs...
Dreamteam
Rolebased usermanagement + Filer + Backup + external secure Internet access
ZFS Encryption with user-lock/unlock via SMB shares and autolock/unlock based on rules and timetables
http://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/zfs encryption.pdf
LX Zones in napp-it (new) to run lightweight Linux container under OmniOS
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/zones.pdf (currently Solaris only, OmniOS, OI under development)
High Performance 2 x 12G SAS Multipath Storage
http://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/sas.pdf
High Performance SMB storage ex for video editing on OSX and Windows
Performance and principles (up to 600 MB/s - 800MB/s write and read with SMB2 and Jumboframes and some OS tunings)
Benchmarks about number of vdevs, sync-write (ZIL) and SSD only pools
Benchmarks
Infos about napp-it scripting, napp-it file structure, modifications or debugging (work in progress)
Advanced User
Video tutorials
Matt Ahrens (one of the original ZFS developers) and others
OpenZFS Basics
How ZFS Snapshots really work
OpenZFS Device Removal and RaidZ Expansion
zfs send and receive
Dedup performance
others
ZFS encryption (Tom Caputto/ Datto)
See also the STH Buyers Guide
http://www.servethehome.com/buyers-guides/top-hardware-components-napp-omnios-nas-servers/
Less known Solaris features from Joerg Moellenkamp
Less known Solaris features
More videos
videos about setup
Howto flash LSI SAS onboard or PCIe HBAs controllers to IT mode on EFI boards,
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/flash lsi sas.pdf
How to use USB as a datastore in ESXi 6 (possible option for napp-in-one at home)
http://www.virten.net/2015/10/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-0/
you can use the new free ESXi webclient to create a datastore in ESXI (stop usbarbitrator per CLI)
Oracle Solaris Manuals:
Oracle Solaris 11 manuals
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/solaris-11-192991.html
Manage SMB file sharing in Oracle Solaris 11.4
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838 01/pdf/E61013.pdf
Illumos based systems like OmniOS or OpenIndiana
are quite identical to Oracle Solaris
11 Express (beside encryption)
so you can use the Oracle Docs for Solaris Express 11 and
Illumos based systems as a reference.
Download Solaris Express 11 manuals
google or check http://archive.today/snZaS (downloads are working, links refer to Solaris 11)
Example: Oracle Express 11 manuals
Introducing Solaris 11 Express
First steps with Solaris 11 Express
Archive of complete Solaris 11 Express manuals, use the pdf download link as they refer to the old versions (download them)
How to install mpio on a Windows server
https://www.highlnk.com/2015/01/zfs-iscsi-lun-mpio-setup-windows-server/
About disk failure rates and reliability
research.google.com/en/archive/disk failures.pdf
http://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/
http://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
Other Guides and Wikis
Perl
Napp-it is a Perl application. Perl is included in most Linix and Unix systems and still best suited for local and cgi system management
and string manipulation based on regular expressions with a good file locking mechanism for multiuser text manipulation.
https://www.perltutorial.org/
https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Perl (german)
To create and edit Perl scripts, I use the Dzsoft Perl editor (now free)
http://www.dzsoft.com/perl-editor.html
http://www.dzsoft.com/register.htm?app=dzperl (key, free)
ServetheHome: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?forums/solaris-nexenta-openindiana-and-napp-it.26/
About extending napp-it using Perl
http://www.guru99.com/perl-tutorials.html
http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html