Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote on 01/10/2012 02:54:12 PM:
>> Like I said, I'm looking for the general interface provided by every
> NAS I've ever seen. Of course, each of them is specific to their
> device. I'm hoping there's a version out there for "generic" Linux.
>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions in this regard?
>
> The two players in the 'generic server GUI' space are SME server and
> ClearOS. Both are sort-of generic Centos under the covers but you
> barely see it. SME server has a long history but has slowed down
> progress in the last few years. It works by having a web interface
> build snippets of config files and perl scripts that are processed
> with templates to rebuild the real config files. If you want to
> make your own changes, you have to edit the templates, not the
> normal configs. ClearOS has a much more modern ajax-y interface but
> I'm not quite sure what does the real work. The delay in the
> CentOS 6.0 release set them back badly so you have to choose between
> a beta 6.x version or an outdated 5.x.
I was vaguely aware of these, but neither came to mind. I will check them
out. Thank you!
> Unless you have a lot of users or changing needs, this doesn't
> really sound like something that needs a web GUI to manage - or at
> least not worth putting up with oddball/non-standard configurations
> to get.
Yes, it does. *You* try selling tools without a GUI in 2012.
This is not for personal consumption. Like I said, I already have servers
doing every one of these functions. I now want to make them available to
the office manager. He needs a GUI to even consider it, even if he'll
never change a single one of these features...
> If your hardware can handle a small amount of overhead
> and you can manage it from a windows client, you might consider
> VMware ESXi (the free version). Then you can run a full GUI console
> of any OS remotely
That doesn't add a thing for this solution. It's not the "remotely" part
that I need, it's the GUI part they need. And ESXi doesn't help a *BIT*
in configuring an NFS share... (Nor does ESXi give me any advantage in
managing storage, which is all that this solution really is. In fact,
there's a reason you really want to run a VM solution on *top* of a really
good quality SAN... :) )
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