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Best operating system for NAS/SAN? (and PERC 6i)

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sofakng

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I'd like to setup a dedicated file server box that will most likely be used as a SAN for my ESXi server.

What's the best operating system for a SAN that can manage my Dell PERC 6i card? (so I can receive e-mail alerts, etc)

I'd like to keep the current array from my PERC card (it's a giant 8 TB RAID-6 array) so I don't want to reformat the drive. I just want to serve iSCSI / SMB / NFS shares.
 
freenas/openfiler if you are not serious

saniq (hp lefthand vsa) is good for iscsi

Windows storage server 2008 oem only
 
Thanks for the reply!

This is for a home development lab so I'm really open to almost anything (if it's cheap!)

OpenFiler looks really nice but it appears to use a proprietary file system which I don't like at all.

FreeNAS also looks good but I don't know enough about it. How is SMB performance and management of my PERC 6i array?

Windows Storage Server 2008 is probably the most enticing. I'm an MSDN subscriber so I have access to it but what is the difference between regular Windows Server 2008 R2? How would it run on a low-power AMD Sempron 140 (2.7 GHz, single-core) and 2 GB ECC RAM?
 
Of that choices in that list the only one using a proprietary filesystem is Windows, OpenFiler and FreeNAS are just pre-packaged versions of Linux or a BSD.

I'd personally just build my own off of Debian, the inflexibility of Windows makes it a virtual non-option from the get go for me.
 
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