FreeNAS is one one of the most popular software-defined storage products available and in this article Tom Fenton shows you how he installed it on a virtual machine to provide an NFS Share. Network ...

I'm looking at using a cheap NAS device with a VMware Esxi server. I was planning to use NFS instead of iSCSI, and saw I know I have two popular options - Openfiler and FreeNAS. I was wondering if ...

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. VMs were the natural choice to get around such a ...

Following up on my previous review of FreeNAS, I have had some time to play around and investigate further. Unfortunately, due to issues with the current release of VMWare Fusion (bridged networking ...

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of ...

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 ...