I've been using Solarish platforms for my home server for the past four years on the same piece of 2006-era HW. Start by looking here:
http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2008/03/kebes-home-data-center-or-fbarts-new.html And realize now that I've upgraded/changed things as follows: - OS was in-development Nevada or OpenSolaris, but it's now OpenIndiana. - Only two physical NICs are in use, external and internal. Each internal zone gets a VNIC off of the internal NIC. - Now 4GB of ECC RAM. - Two 750s have been replaced with two 2TBs, and I now have a 64GB SSD root disk partitioned as: 52GB rpool 4GB swap/dump 4GB ZIL/slog (I probably overprovisioned that ZIL, but what the hell!) - The webserver zone (which thinks it's attached to the Internet) now serves as an internal DNS server. - The router zone (which knows the entire internal network topology) now also serves as an internal DHCP server. - I've added a third non-router zone, specifically so I can access my work network without having to power up my work-issued machine. Funny you mention Minecraft, as my daughters are trying to convince me to run a Minecraft server. I'll probably dedicate a zone just to that if I do so, instead of, say overloading my web-server zone. I've never migrated off another platform, so someone else will have to help you through the perils of migration, if any. My router forwards packets to/from a 35Mbit/sec bidirectional link, without much trouble. I think my machine is overpowered, and if I were to build it fresh today, I'd go with something low-wattage, as long as it would support VT-x so I could exploit KVM if need be. As for older clients, I can't speak to Windows: I'm a Windows-free household. There are CIFS people who hang out here who can speak to it more, but from what I understand the basics work really well. I can say that my one PPC Mac running OS X 10.4 needs to use "Connect To Server:" to access NFS, but once that happens, bits seem to move okay. I don't use my PPC mac much anymore, and starting with MacOS 10.6, NFS + automounter == crazy delicious. I actually plan on talking about this setup (and a similar one we use at Nexenta's Lowell office) at Illumos Day in October. Hope this helps, Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
