Configure Highly Available STorage (HAST) on FreeNAS

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Gerard

FreeNAS (+FreeNAS) is excellent but it lacks the HAST (Highly Available STorage) feature, However, TrueNAS has this feature integrated. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based (nanobsd) open source Network Attached Storage Platform developed by iXsystems, that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems.

Since FreeBSD has already integrated the HAST in base system, this feature can be added to FreeNAS manually.

Follow these steps to setup a HAST in FreeNAS: Configure Highly Available STorage on FreeNAS.


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2 Responses to Configure Highly Available STorage (HAST) on FreeNAS

  1. Bovine says:
    December 6, 2012 at 3:36 am

    The latest builds of NAS4Free actually include HAST+CARP support directly in the administration web interface. NAS4Free is a fork of the mature FreeNAS 7 codebase before the rewrite by iXsystems.

  2. Gerard says:
    December 6, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Thanks for the comment, Jeff. I wasn’t aware of that.

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