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FreeNAS posted: Jun 5, 2006 12:31 AM

Click to view VMTN Admin's profile Expert 1,468 posts since
May 10, 2006
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/168

FreeNAS is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) server

Re: FreeNAS

1. Jul 8, 2006 9:37 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view picicio's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jul 4, 2006
A pretty nice html administration GUI, but, why should I setup a raid5 storage with no opportunity to (1) be informed of a disk failure and, (2) worst, to rebuild the unit ?

Fabrizio Conte

Re: FreeNAS

2. Aug 15, 2006 5:12 AM in response to: picicio
Click to view prabhakar's profile Enthusiast 119 posts since
May 24, 2006
Congratulations for the great work .

:-)

prabhakar

Re: FreeNAS

3. Sep 22, 2006 3:56 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view shiplake's profile Novice 11 posts since
Mar 8, 2005
This looks very interesting, but where else can I get a copy? Like most people on corporate networks, I can't use BitTorrent.

Re: FreeNAS

4. May 2, 2007 11:28 PM in response to: shiplake
Click to view Michael Bender's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Apr 25, 2006
Have a look here:

http://www.freenas.org/

under the "Downloads" drop-down menu item.

Re: FreeNAS

5. Sep 24, 2007 4:54 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view OzTEXS's profile Novice 6 posts since
Nov 30, 2006

Hi,

I understand the new version of FreeNAS is now 0.685RC .. will this be available in a VM image soon. I want to upgrade my version to

make use of the PS3 connectivity.

Cheers !!

Re: FreeNAS

6. Oct 16, 2007 11:17 AM in response to: OzTEXS
Click to view brugh's profile Expert 485 posts since
Aug 17, 2005
does this do nfs3 over tcp so i can attach it to my virtual esx servers?

Re: FreeNAS

7. Dec 25, 2007 10:45 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view yoda's profile Novice 15 posts since
Oct 1, 2004
Just curious, is there a vmdk available for this or could someone let me know which linux distribution it should be patterned after as a vm if I use the basic iso from freenas? Also, which version would be good to start with?

I don't really want to use the bittorrent thing either.

Thanks.

Re: FreeNAS

8. Feb 13, 2008 6:41 AM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view ferarg's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Nov 17, 2006

what happend with tracker?

Since yesterday I have problems to download files from vmware using torrent because "request is not authorized for use this tracker"

Re: FreeNAS

9. Mar 25, 2008 8:36 AM in response to: ferarg
Click to view CMCC's profile Hot Shot 181 posts since
Jul 17, 2006
Easy configuration! I like it! thanks for this appliance!

Re: FreeNAS

10. Oct 21, 2008 12:30 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view kcmjr's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Jun 5, 2006
Not sure who else has seen this issue, there are not many comments listed here, I cannot get the config to save to a virtual floppy. The floppy throws errors constantly and unless I attach a real physical floppy it's a no-go. I'm on ESX 3.5 and booting from the live CD of FreeNAS. So far from my experience I dont think I'll be using this appliance. I "may" try a full install but my goal was to boot from the CD image.

Re: FreeNAS

11. Oct 21, 2008 5:32 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view polysulfide's profile Expert 286 posts since
Oct 25, 2006

OpenFiler is good too. I'm still looking for an opensource product similar to Lefthand Network's

Being able to stripe all the local storage on ESX hosts into a NAS cluster would be awesome.

If it was useful, give me credit
Jason White - VCP

Re: FreeNAS

12. Nov 3, 2008 4:21 AM in response to: CMCC
Click to view ironike's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Sep 5, 2008
Hi,

i download a Freenas and I configure my esx....great i see the iscsi lun but when i create a datastore after few second an error message appear that said:

"Error during the configuration of the host:Cannot open Volume:

/vmfs/volumes/4902c5bd-50cac5dd-c58b-000c29c9180b"

Where is the problem???? this is the last step before to complete my configuration!!!!

I try to connect to iscsi target a Windows XP with Microsoft iSCSI initiator and works fine......

Please help me!!!


Bye

Massimo

Re: FreeNAS

13. Jan 16, 2009 4:08 AM in response to: ironike
Click to view Heinrich Rebehn's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Sep 28, 2006
Same Error here, but not only with FreeNAS but also with the Linux iSCSI target. Is anybody successfully using datastores via iSCSI at all??

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