Hi Jim,
IMO, like I said before in other post, NS could be a very good AiO product.
Also, can be improved (Nethserver future version 7).
As NS Team said for many times, NethServer must be keeped simple as much as possible (I think this is to work safe, not for functions).
But personally, I don’t know a product so complex as you want (Disk Management feature request, Did you know Yunohost?, and I think the list may continue) to work well. And moreover, a free product.
Maybe for this reason also Zentyal have reduced the functions in the last version.
Like I said before in this Forum, I don’t want to keep all eggs in the same basket.
In this moment I’m thinking at two scenarios to use NS (very short description):
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NS act as AiO ( UTM + Mail Server + Web Server) with two zones, RED and GREEN, or three zones RED, GREEN and BLUE, for Home and Small (very small) Business.
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NS act as UTM with four zones:
a. RED
b. ORANGE - another NS act as Mail Server and maybe as Web Server
c. BLUE - wireless for guests
d. GREEN:
d.1. NS as PDC & File sharing;
d.2. NS as PDC with FreeNAS as Storage & File sharing;
d.3. Zentyal as PDC / AD controlled by RSAT & File sharing;
d.4. Zentyal as PDC / AD controlled by RSAT with FreeNAS as Storage & File sharing;
Many other applications can be added to an Information System, but IMHO, in the right place.
Of course, everything I said above can be criticized, improved, rejected or trashed.