Replacing a Hard Disk Drive of a ZFS pool in a NAS4Free server

By admin, on December 14th, 2013%

Being in the business of database management, it’s hard for me to admit that I’ve lost personal data, but after riding the storm in more occasions than I can remember or care to know, I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t stress over and over again the fragile nature of XXI century storage media . . . → Read More: Replacing a Hard Disk Drive of a ZFS pool in a NAS4Free server

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NAS4Free under ESXi

By admin, on December 14th, 2013%

One surprising thing I noticed when testing out NAS4Free is the lack of documentation with regards to installation on VMware. I can understand a viewpoint that a NAS is a NAS and not to be anything else, but what about working loads where that kind of raw performance is not required (granted the virtualization overhead these days should be within 5-10% of physical). In any case the below instructions are written with running ESXi 5.1 with NAS4Free 9.1.0.1, for ease of reading the directions are broken down into three sections. Continue reading NAS4Free under ESXi

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