I am attempting to setup a home server using the iSCSI capabilities of OpenFiler or FreeNAS within a VM on an ESXi 4 server. My questions concern performance, reliability and feature set of the two ...

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.<BR><BR>I was wondering ...

Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you'll be using it for. Read ...

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So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...