Tuesday, April 23, 2013

NAS4Free in ESXi

For the last couple of years I have been using FreeNAS 7.x for my go to simple fileshare tool within my ESX infrastructure.

Well as we all know that platform has reached the end of life, and at first the natural progression was to use FreeNAS 8.  Well I liked it, but it has a completely different GUI, and I just could not get the hang of it.

So last month I found out there is a new branch of FreeNAS7, NAS4Free.  I have just started to install it and get it configured, but I recommend using this web site to get a jump on things:

NAS4Free under ESXi at liquidobject.com