# [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS as home serwer (NAT, private projects)

Natxo Asenjo natxo.asenjo at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 18:16:18 UTC 2016

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    hi Krzysztof,

    On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com>
    wrote:

    > Cheers guys,
    >
    > I'm planning to build my own server at home for multiple purposes (my
    > projects, home NAS etc). I'm planning to use zones to separate WAN access
    > server (www hosting, git and svn repos, email maybe..) and SAN
    > functionalities for LAN only access.
    > Now, i'm huge fan of Illumos. I used to work with Solaris 8 to 11, and i
    > really enjoy it. I wish to use ZFS as the best storage solution, but what
    > concern me most is availability of technologies that i'm going to use. For
    > WAN purposes I need apache2, php5, mariadb, python (at least 2.7),git, svn,
    > and maybe fish shell ;) . For my NAS, I need samba, nfs, ftp, DLNA
    > [mediatomb, serviio] (sharing video to TV directly).
    > AFAIK and read on the net, probably every of those technologies are doable
    > on OmniOS, but the problem is time spent on installing, solving problems
    > etc.
    > Of course, there is always the linux solution, but i would like not go
    > there as Illumos has may better storage (ZFS on linux sucks IHMO)
    > Has anyone got expierience in setting up such stack on OmniOS? (or any
    > other Illumos distro?) Problems? Advices?
    >
    >

     I run a microserver at home that does NFS/cifs, dlna (serviio in the past,
    pldna now), I use crashplan for backups to the cloud. I use it for testing
    stuff in zones a lot as well with the stacks you mention and others. I
    don't use samba, the cifs server is very reliable and easy to use, and now
    we have smb2 in it. I don't use ftp either, so I cannot comment on that,
    although I vaguely remember talk about removing it because it was removed
    from illumos.

    The only thing I cannot do is kvm because that is not available for amd
    cpus, but that is not really a big deal. I got a nuc from work to use it as
    hypervisor (esx/kvm) and use the omnios box as storage datastore for the
    vms. Works great too.

    Not much to say, it works very well, updates/upgrades are easy and work. An
    omnios box is a great home server. But if you are not willing to spend some
    time learning how things work in solaris/illumos then maybe the linux
    solution is better suited for you. It is a different system after all, lots
    of things are similar but others differ.

    HTH,

    --
    Groeten,
    natxo
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