I have tried various searches and looked in various threads and webpages, but I cannot seem to find any information on what is the current stable release iso and what is beta releases.
I have also been watching a review (of a 3.x release which was supposedly shortly before 3.x went stable) which suggested there were issues with connecting to an existing NFS share from the user panel and having it available there. Has this been resolved?
Finally, I want to virtualise this on ESXi (which is where a test system I have installed is currently residing). I am proposing to add an LSI RAID card and set it all as a ESXi datastore to be assigned to the OMV, but just wanted to make sure that there was nothing that would bite me like there is with freeNAS which requires direct drive access for all its zfs stuff. I am assuming if I use zfs with OVM I would have the same issues, but I was proposing to use an ext4 drive format - well, within the context of the VM anyway. Anyone have any advise or otherwise. This is to be used as a periodic backup of my existing freeNAS server which I plan to sync (probably) using rsync.
Any observations on this would be welcome, but please bear in mind I do understand the difference between redundancy and backup. I currently keep a rotated off site backup which I will continue to do. Depending on how good this is, I might make this my primary storage service and relegate the freeNAS to the backup role, not yet decided, so I want to make sure I get something which is stable and flexible. It needs to be able to serve windows clients as well as acting as an archive repository for my ESXi datastores (so must be able to also deliver NFS efficiently).
One final thought, I cannot find any way of using Active Directory (or LDAP - [edit: now found the LDAP plugin, so that is an option ...]) to provide user authentication. Have I missed something?