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

About this Blog

Hello, Hello, Hello

Ok, sometimes I get curious and want to try things. Some times I succeed, and some times I do not, but most of all, I like to document my attempts to solve problems.

Now while I have many interests and solutions, this will focus on a certain subset of them. First of all Virtualization. There might be some Linux, Windows, and Scripting, but almost all of it will center around accomplishments related to a virtualization and computers.

Some of my recent endeavors that I plan to document later are as follows:

• Setting up and working with Nagios
• Getting Microsoft Cluster services to work with ESX 3i
• FreeNAS as a file share repository
• Using iSCSI with ESX

I hope that more than myself find these topics interesting.