I'm looking to create a storage appliance on VMware that isn't too fiddly to set up. I've set up freeNAS and that's just fine and I was wondering about peoples experiences with openfiler. A Couple of bonus features I'm interested in are an easy way to zero out the free space so I can reclaim space on thin provisioned disks and deduplication.
Does anyone have any experience with setting up a cluster on openfiler? Is it fiddly or pretty intuitive without any nasty surprises?