I have a hp gen8 that I put esxi and xpenology on it, expecting that I would be able to set it up and just leave it. I mainly use it for plex and backup. But now the plex server version is being obsoleted and various apps will shortly no longer work with it (it requires o/s upgrade to get newer server versions).
I don't want to faff around with those bootloaders and xpenology upgrade issues so thinking to just blow the media away and start from scratch. The backups are small enough that I can copy to local machine first, and they're also copied to S3.
So I'm wondering if I should go plain linux to avoid these 'app store'/os upgrade issues, or if something like freenas/zfs is going to be friendlier and still avoid said issues?
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Just read about freenas + virtualization... probably more fuss than I'm after. So I only have plain linux for easy street on esxi?
I don't want to faff around with those bootloaders and xpenology upgrade issues so thinking to just blow the media away and start from scratch. The backups are small enough that I can copy to local machine first, and they're also copied to S3.
So I'm wondering if I should go plain linux to avoid these 'app store'/os upgrade issues, or if something like freenas/zfs is going to be friendlier and still avoid said issues?
edit:
Just read about freenas + virtualization... probably more fuss than I'm after. So I only have plain linux for easy street on esxi?
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