There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 FreeNAS is a very compact and free (as in BSD) CIFS, NFS, and FTP server with RAID 0, 1, 5 support, and a web administration GUI. Believe it or not the whole install is 16 megs. To […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Here is the second question that you answer “y” to if you are very confident you don’t have any devices you want the data on hooked up to this system: Now, perhaps you are familiar with the […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 When the system comes back up, it should list the correct interface, as well as the default LAN IP address: Choose option 2 to set the LAN IP address and subnet mask: Reboot again to make sure […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 To test this, we are going to set up CIFS and create a share off of a disk device. First off, we will configure CIFS, and change the workgroup to something different (remote1 in this example). Make […]

There was only one choice we could find for a Mac iSCSI initiator. It is available from ATTO Technology. We used the iSCSI target we set up in this article, which is a GNU/Linux box running a 2.6 Linux kernel. Of course, iSCSI is a standard, so any iSCSI target should work as well. The […]

>1< | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Nexenta sells a software based NAS and iSCSI solution that is built on their Open Source NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris project. OK. This is getting pretty cool. As crankish users of GNU/Linux as a designation on NetAdminTools for many years, it is nice to see Stallman’s […]

1 | >2< | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 There is a license agreement: The registration code comes back via email quickly: The machine signature stays the same with repeated installs, so if you want to start over, just re-extract the VMware image and reinstall. Select a different IP address if needed. The […]

1 | 2 | >3< | 4 | 5 | 6 Set passwords: The disks were set up as part of the VM: The disks show up on the left pane. Set up your volume: There are many different options for accessing the volume, including iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, FTP, RSYNC, and WebDAV: 1 | 2 […]

1 | 2 | 3 | >4< | 5 | 6 Review and save changes: Here is the Data Management, Runners area showing an error that the NTP server we chose isn’t available: Here is the first part of the status page (we scrunched it to show half): Here is the second half of the […]

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | >5< | 6 There is an awesome Ajax terminal: NexentaStor has syncing services: Snapping service: Tiering: Here is the output of top from an SSH session: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 6938 admin 5148K 3188K sleep 59 0 0:00:10 2.1% bash/1 710 […]

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | >6< A peek around the filesystem and the kernel: admin@nex1:/$ ls bin dev export initrd media opt root system var boot devices files kernel mnt platform sbin tmp volumes cdrom etc home lib net proc srv usr admin@nex1:/$ ls sbin autopush in.mpathd netstrategy runlevel umount […]