That means your OS options are Solaris 10, Solaris 11 Express, or one of the forks of OpenSolaris. I would recommend a Solaris-based OS over FreeBSD or Linux for performance and stability reasons, or if you need any of the features only recent ZFS versions support (like encryption).
In Sum: if you love ZFS but want to run Windows Server 2008 R2 whats your best/coolest option(s)? There are a myrad of RAID cards out there: can someone recommend a setup that approaches ZFS flexibility? A setup where you can just add a disk to the pool and bam more storage without having to take the server down for rebuild? What is the "next best" DAS storage option for this OS? I can't find a ZFS implementation for windows, so that's out. We run (exclusively at the moment) Window Server 2008 R2 servers. Sure, OpenSolaris exists, and FreeBSD has ZFS support, but reliability is generally said to be poor when on FreeBSD/OpenSolairs/Solaris on non oracle hardware. What I hate about ZFS is that, best I can tell, its only truly stable form on Solaris running on Oracle (formerly Sun) hardware. Plus, the disks don't need to be same etc. You can create one big disk, everything is stored on multiple drives, and you can grow and shrink the pool and drive at any time. SPI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which handles our donations, finances, and legal holdings.Conceptually, and I don't think I am alone here, I love the concepts of ZFS.
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