Today I decided to reinstall my OpenSolaris server and actually do something with it this time. I’ll be moving my proxy, webserver and nagios server to it soon, but first I need to get the basics running. In the not-so-near future I’ll probably integrate it with my LDAP server to allow a single authentication for my users. I do NOT intend to install X or anything fancy, so if you need that you should look elsewhere.

The OpenSolaris distribution I chose was  Nexenta: it is basically an OpenSolaris Kernel with GNU application userland, meaning familiar tools for anyone that’s used to linux. Plus, it has apt-get. I think that is enough to explain my choice.

By the end of this post, we should have a working Nexenta server with networking, a configured ZFS pool and a functional zone. Now, on to the installation!

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