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Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)
2012-01-12 14:14:39
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 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 a beta 6.x version or an outdated 5.x.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... :)
)
Tim Massey
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