| Lee H. Marzke on 25 Feb 2017 08:10:23 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] openATTIC? |
Interesting find. Just reading the docs, It seems to be package based and installs on Debian Jessie, RHEL7, Ubuntu 14.04, etc. Supports ZFS, Linux LVM, DRBD, Ceph object storage. After living with some bugs in FreeNAS that caused random crashes ( 1 / week ) , I'd be concerned about stability for any new project. My FreeNAS is now stable on 9.10. FYI the FreeNAS 10 is at Beta 2, and has much more support for BSD jails. My use case is running numerous VMware ESXi VM's stablity is important to me. If you need object storage or are not running VMware ESX this may not be important to you. My older FreeNAS unit would crash ( may have been related to a single plug-in jail I was using ), and after it rebooted the ESXi VM's would recover and I never new about the problem for a few months. Seems my combination of NFS hard mounts to ESXi , and Sync writes, allowed ESXi VM's to pick up where they left and were pretty much un-affected by FreeNAs being down for 10 min. I'd think that supporting one OS build would be more likely to be stable than supporting a bunch of OS's with packages. OpenAttic seems to have more features than FreeNAS , but I don't know if that is a benefit or not, as your not likely to use more than a few of the storage systems. FreeNAS doesn't have DRBD, but of course has ZFS send/receive. A quick look at OpenAttic shows no support listed for ZFS snapshot replication ( other than the base command-line ZFS send command ) Replication requires orchestration of creating snaps, replication and deleting them, so you would have to write all this yourself or find a solution that plugs into OpenAttic. Seem like a lot of usability features are just missing - but I'd have to look at the real GUI to be sure. Perhaps they may add these features in time. From a quick look at the GUI preview, it seem to only report disks/pools, so I assume all change are done via the command line. The GUI download says it's in development ( so you have to ask what kind of bugs show up when the gui and other parts are released seperately ) For backup/replication of FreeNAS, I've been using Rsync.net , as they switched their whole infrastructure over to ZFS, and now provide ZFS snapshot replication ( that works transparently with FreeNAS ). Their entry level 1TB account supports this now. So you cat get real SAN replication ( with guest quiesce ) to a low cost rsync account for very low cost. FreeNAs has integration with vSphere API's for those who care. For instance FreeNAS snapshots can trigger a prior vSPhere snap which triggers a OS quiese via VMware Tools in Windows or linux guests. So you FreeNAs snaps may be able to get consistent copies of running DB's. Lee ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vossen JP" <jp@jpsdomain.org> > To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 12:50:56 AM > Subject: [PLUG] openATTIC? > Anyone using or heard of http://openattic.org/ > > openATTIC — the only storage system you'll ever need > create and manage storage ... with open source on linux ... via a simple > user interface > > I've used http://www.freenas.org/ before and that worked very well. > openATTIC seems slicker in some ways, but it's installed on top of a > random Linux OS, not basically a FreeBSD appliance like FreeNAS is. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > JP > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- > JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- "Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion..." - Kryptos Lee Marzke, lee@marzke.net http://marzke.net/lee/ IT Consultant, VMware, VCenter, SAN storage, infrastructure, SW CM +1 800-393-5217 office +1 484-348-2230 fax +1 252 627-9531 sms ( 252 MARZKE1 ) ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug