Is running FreeNAS in a virtual machine with the hope of making a not-insignificant amount of data available ever be a good way to go? As far as I can tell, even using ZFS (where the recommendation is ...

Hi,<br>We have the following scenario in our house at present: The desire to run several different machines, but not enough hardware to have dedicated boxes.<br>VMs were the natural choice to get ...

Tom follows up on his previous article about installing FreeNAS and using it to create an NFS share to back a VM, now creating an iSCSI target on FreeNAS and using that target as backing for a vSphere ...

Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we’re reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment — whether it’s a PC, server, virtual machine, or ...

It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? That’s the premise behind FreeNAS, the open-source ...