Hi,
At my work, we are renewing our file server. It's an old Poweredge with Windows Server 2012. No Active Directory, just network drives mapped on the client machines with users created on the server. We want to keep acces this way (network drives).
Our first option was to buy a Synology rack. But I am considering to install Freenas on a more recent Poweredge (like R710).
But I'm a little bit lost, so I have a few questions :
1) Is it a good idea ? Maybe FreeNas cannot be used this way ?
2) I've read about ZFS and Z-Raid, and that it is a big advantage of Freenas. If I understand correctly, the Raid wouldn't done through the raid card but at the os level, correct ?
3) Usually, we set up a Raid60, is there a similar z-Raid ?
4) I'm used to create mail alerts with Dell OMSA for disk problems, will it be possible ?
5) Will the LED of the disk caddies report disk statuses ?
That's all for now.
At my work, we are renewing our file server. It's an old Poweredge with Windows Server 2012. No Active Directory, just network drives mapped on the client machines with users created on the server. We want to keep acces this way (network drives).
Our first option was to buy a Synology rack. But I am considering to install Freenas on a more recent Poweredge (like R710).
But I'm a little bit lost, so I have a few questions :
1) Is it a good idea ? Maybe FreeNas cannot be used this way ?
2) I've read about ZFS and Z-Raid, and that it is a big advantage of Freenas. If I understand correctly, the Raid wouldn't done through the raid card but at the os level, correct ?
3) Usually, we set up a Raid60, is there a similar z-Raid ?
4) I'm used to create mail alerts with Dell OMSA for disk problems, will it be possible ?
5) Will the LED of the disk caddies report disk statuses ?
That's all for now.