Disk Management and RAID management

[JasonWard]

Both of these things appear to be a big missing to me from Zentyal.

[DWAM]

I think what you miss first is "read the manual"... The expert mode install allows everything you want.

[vshaulsk]

I am not sure he missed anything.  There is no disk management functions through the web gui.  If you install more disks you have to use the shell in order to manage your disks or webmin or some other program.

Even creating file directories requires either shell or another third party program.   It would be nice to be able to manage the disks, mount points, software raid setup, and internal server directory structure straight from the web gui.  This way people who are not very familiar with linux can start using it faster and not require either third party programs or command SSH prompt.

[DWAM]

My mistake... I presumed it was for install stage...

Webmin allows what Zentyal lacks in term of disks/raid management...

[JasonWard]

I am not sure he missed anything.  There is no disk management functions through the web gui.  If you install more disks you have to use the shell in order to manage your disks or webmin or some other program.

Even creating file directories requires either shell or another third party program.   It would be nice to be able to manage the disks, mount points, software raid setup, and internal server directory structure straight from the web gui.  This way people who are not very familiar with linux can start using it faster and not require either third party programs or command SSH prompt.

Indeed, I have used Webmin to setup RAID post install, still trying to figure how best to mount and share/use the array.

[vshaulsk]

Yeah mine is just used to store all major data not related to specific client shares.....media, marketing documents, some group shares.

I have a 7 X 2TB raid 6 ....... I used webmin to create it (used EXT4 file system.... not sure if that was the best or not) and I mounted under /mnt/(created directory raid6).  Webmin made it easy to mount and now I can see it under the zentyal GUI....  I chose software raid and not to mount it under home because I can easily transfer the disks to another linux system.  With mdadm I can rebuild the raid + mount it without loosing any data.   

I use the zentyal file sharing module to create links to the proper directories in the raid.... it is pretty simple (the only thing is that you have to manually provide the path).

Now I don't know if the way I have it setup is correct, but for my small home business it was the best way to make a one box solution that had many functions + redundency (and lots of storage)

My OS and home are mounted on 2X500gig raid 1 setup which I created during install.

[Karl]

My mistake... I presumed it was for install stage...

Webmin allows what Zentyal lacks in term of disks/raid management...

That's not the point.  You shouldn't have to use Webmin alongside Zentyal.  Software RAID is a common enough configuration that Zentyal should have options to manage it, especially where the server's health hangs in the balance.  It should have a management GUI for both MD and LVM as well as email alerts when a drive trips SMART or otherwise fails.

[ichat]

Karl i agree...


but if this is what you really want,    i would like to ask/suggest that you do a a search on this forum as well as in trac   and  wiki   to look for simular  requests (or support questions) by other people,  and bundle them with links, to a single post... than filter out all 'usefull' information and suggestions    if you do that  it will be a lot easier to file a complete feature request with all neccisairy information,   

if you would like any help with it, you could try to find me in the official  #zentyal  irc channel at freenode