napp-it ZFS Storage User Manual page 5

2.1. OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04
with GUI and SMB 2.1 („desktop edition"), use for home and lab use
You can run napp-it on OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04 (OpenSource) or Oracle Solaris 11.3. Both support
SMB 2.1 and come with a GUI. You manage storage via the napp-it Web-UI but the local GUI helps to transfer
and organize data locally or to setup things like ip v6. If you want the GUI in production systems, prefer Solaris.
Alternatively you can use the „text-edition" of OpenIndiana or Solaris or OmniOS, a minimalistic and very stable
OpenSource distribution for storage and other production use cases (This is the preferred platform for napp-it)
2.2. OmniOS
or OpenIndiana or Oracle Solaris server edition
They come with a console only interface.
To manage local data, you can use
Midnight Commander via Putty.
Storage management is done via the
napp-it Webinterface. As they include only
the absolute needed software, they are the
most stable option.