FreeNAS 8 has been released
For those of you interested in Freenas 8 it’s now been officially released and can be downloaded from here, expect testing results shortly.
For those of you interested in Freenas 8 it’s now been officially released and can be downloaded from here, expect testing results shortly.
Having seen Vladans Openfiler results yesterday I told him that I would re-run my tests using the same Iometer script that he used, just to make sure that the results he saw weren’t down to his hardware. Unfortunately his results… Continue Reading
In the second part of my series of testing home lab NAS/SAN solutions I tested Open-E’s DSS v6. I had been planning on testing the current release candidate of FreeNAS, RC5, unfortunately during initial testing this proved to be a… Continue Reading
With the recent release of Openfiler 2.99 there has been an on-going issue with an inability to create certain software RAID arrays. This is present in the beta and final release of the software and was getting frustrating, however there… Continue Reading
In this new NAS\SAN Shoot-Out series I will be testing available NAS\SAN solutions out there for those of you wanting a free\cheap home based Lab NAS\SAN solution for your vSphere labs. I will be providing the testing results of the… Continue Reading
My hardware raid controller (Lenovo branded M1015) simply isn’t recognised by OF or Freenas 7.2 and FreeNas 8 (RC2 and RC3) has a penchant for just crashing during the installation. I have been toying with NexentaStor but haven’t been overly… Continue Reading
Hi all, as some of you may know I recently experienced issues with my IX4 whilst using the paid for TZO subscription service for remote access, having diagnosed the fault down to one of two different avenues. 1, Jumbo Frames… Continue Reading
Running my own home based lab I had struggled to find out which storage solution was going to be the best for me, I had multiple choices with the types of storage I could use (I own the following storage… Continue Reading
An update to my previous post. Having purchased the subscription for the TZO Remote Access for the NAS device I eventually had to open a support call with TZO because the SSL certificate still wasn’t downloaded to the device. The… Continue Reading
Having decided that the 1.2tb of useable space (after applying iSCSI to it) I decided that as I had 4 1.5tb drives lying around I would see about upgrading the IX4 from 2tb to 6tb (I already have an 8tb… Continue Reading