Samba is now improving a lot and 4.4 is a very big step forward. But things like SMB Multichannel and SMB Direct are not working as should yet.
I think that its best implementation is MSFT and wise...

There is a free version of ESXi which is great although, it has many limitations like vMotion, Data Protection, also, many good backup solutions like Veeam are not working with it.

I would really...