ZFS Platform Comparison

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7	FreeBSD Version	10-STABLE or 11-CURRENT	9.3	?	N/A	N/A	N/A
8	Webbased ZFS Management	Excellent but buggy	Excellent but (arguable) complex	Excellent	Good	Excellent	Poor
9	Paid Support	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	OS Only
10	Packages via Official Channels	Average custom implementation	Good via GUI, fallback to CLI	Average	None	Poor	N/A?
11	Packages via CLI	FreeBSD Ports tree	Possible, but inside jails (complex)	Limited because of stripped OS	?	?	Excellent
12	Webbased Network Management	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes, via Cockpit or Webmin
13	High Availability	No	Yes	?	?	Yes	Possible, but complex
14	Webbased Partitioning	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent	?	?	Average, via Cockpit or Webmin
15	Webbased Firewall Settings	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes, via Cockpit or Webmin
16	Graphical Desktop	Yes, optional	No	No	?	No	Yes, (Depends on OS if optional)
17	Easy share management	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Possible via CLI
18	Advanced share management (e.g. ACL)	?	?	?	?	?	Yes
19	Active Directory Integration	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	Possible via CLI
20	Easy SMB Security	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Possible via CLI
21	Webbased iSCSI Management	Complex interface	Good	Good	?	Excellent	GUI: ?, easy via CLI
22	Root-on-ZFS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Possible, but relativly complex
23	ZFS import on other systems	Excellent	Good	Good	Average	Average	Excellent
24	Boot from RAIDZ	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes?
25	ZFS Speed	Excellent	Good	Good	Excellent	Excellent	Good
26	SMB Speed	Good - Excellent (Tuning)	Good	Good	Average	Average	Good to Excellent (Tuning)
27	NFS Speed	Good - Excellent (Tuning)	Good - Excellent (Tuning)	Good - Excellent (Tuning)	Good	Good	Good - Excellent (Tuning)
28	Webbased Installation	Yes	Yes, after basic installation via CLI	Yes, after basic installation via CLI	No	No	No, although technically possible
29	Upgrade via Webinterface	Webinterface only	No	No	No	No	OS only
30	Rolling Releases	No	?	?	?	?	Depends on OS
31	Virtualization host Support	Virtualbox, BHyve	Yes, with plugins	?	Yes, KVM/VirtualBox	No	Yes, KVM, Xen, VirtualBox
32	Virtualization guest support	Hyper-V, Virtualbox	Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMware	Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMware	?	?	All
33	ZFS Failure Monitoring	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not by default
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