Features

For detailed and important information, limitations and requirements about specific features make sure you read the Setup and Users Guide.

XigmaNAS Base System

XigmaNAS 12.3.0.4 uses FreeBSD 12.3 - Check this hardware compatibility list

Minimum Specs:

OS disk: 2GB, RAM: 512MB for “Embedded” installs.
OS disk: 4GB, RAM: 512MB for “Full” installs.

More than 2GB of RAM will give you better system performance! * ZFS prefetch needs 4GB of RAM Golden rule: The more RAM you add, the better it is!

All XigmaNAS OS versions:

Arch: x64 amd64 64-bits versions only.
Full Web Management Interface (WebGUI).

Arch: x86 (32-bit) & ARM versions are discontinued some time ago

Extra services

Bittorent client (Transmission)
UPnP server (FUPPES)
iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly)
Webserver (lighttpd)
Network bandwitdh measure (Iperf3)

Hard Drive / Volume management

ZFS ZFS
HAST (Highly Available Storage, hastd(8))
Software RAID 0,1,5 and mix (1+0,1+1, etc…)
Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present)
Filesystem: UFS, Ext2/3, FAT, NTFS
Partition: MBR and GPT
iSCSI initiator

Network

CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
802.1q vlan tagging
Wireless
Link aggregation
Bridge
Wake On Lan

Monitoring

S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools)
Email alert
SNMP
Syslog
UPS (NUT)

Software Used

XigmaNAS is based upon/includes various free software packages, listed below. The authors of XigmaNAS would like to thank the authors of these software packages for their efforts.

ataidle Sets the idle timer on ATA (IDE) hard drives (http://bluestop.org/ataidle).

Apple Bonjour Bonjour, known as zero-configuration networking, using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) records (https://developer.apple.com/bonjour).

cdialog Display simple dialog boxes from shell scripts (https://invisible-island.net/dialog).

e2fsprogs e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net).

ext4fuse EXT4 implementation for FUSE (https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse).

FreeBSD The FreeBSD Project (https://www.freebsd.org).

Freenas 7 Freenas 7 (https://github.com/freenas/freenas7).

FUPPES Free UPnP Entertainment Service (http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de).

Fuse Filesystem in Userspace (https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse).

host An utility to query DNS servers.

inadyn Simple Dynamic DNS client (https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn).

iperf3 A tool to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth. (https://software.es.net/iperf).

ipmitool IPMItool provides a simple command-line interface to v1.5 & v2.0 IPMI-enabled devices. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool).

iSCSI initiator iSCSI initiator (ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd).

istgt iSCSI target for FreeBSD (http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama).

jQuery A fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library (https://jquery.com).

LCDproc A client/server suite for LCD devices (http://lcdproc.org).

Lighttpd A lighty fast webserver (https://www.lighttpd.net).

MariaDB Multithreaded SQL database. (https://mariadb.org).

MiniDLNA Media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna).

m0n0wall m0n0wall (https://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php).

msmtp A SMTP client with a sendmail compatible interface (http://marlam.de/msmtp/).

mt-daapd Multithread daapd Apple iTunes server (http://www.fireflymediaserver.org).

Netatalk Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net).

NTFS-3G NTFS-3G is a NTFS driver (https://www.tuxera.com/blog/ntfs-3g-community-edition/).

Open Virtual Machine Tools Open Virtual Machine Tools - Virtualization utilities and drivers (https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools).

OpenSSH OpenSSH (https://www.openssh.com).

pfSense pfSense (https://www.pfsense.com).

PHP A server-side scripting language (https://www.php.net).

phpMyAdmin Set of PHP-scripts to manage MySQL over the web (https://www.phpmyadmin.net).

phpVirtualBox phpVirtualBox (https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox).

ProFTPD A highly configurable FTP server (http://www.proftpd.org).

Python A programming language (https://www.python.org).

QuiXplorer A Web-based file-management browser (https://github.com/realtimeprojects/quixplorer).

Rsync Utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. (https://rsync.samba.org/).

Samba Suite providing secure, stable and fast file services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol (https://www.samba.org/).

sipcalc sipcalc (https://www.routemeister.net/projects/sipcalc).

smartmontools Utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems (https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools).

Spinner.js A spinning activity indicator (https://github.com/fgnass/spin.js).

sudo A tool to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges. (https://www.sudo.ws).

Syncthing Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. (https://syncthing.net).

syslogd Circular log support for FreeBSD syslogd.

tablesorter jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table into a sortable table (https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter).

TFTPD-HPA TFTPD-HPA (Trivial File Transfer Protocol Server) (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp).

tmux A terminal multiplexer. (https://github.com/tmux/tmux).

Transmission A fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client (https://transmissionbt.com).

VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) & (Guest Additions) (https://www.virtualbox.org).

VMXNET3 A NIC driver for FreeBSD (https://www.vmware.com).

WSD Web Service Discovery (https://github.com/christgau/wsdd))

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net).

Some of the software used for XigmaNAS are under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2, GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Apple Public Source License and PHP License.

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