Category Archives: FreeNAS

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 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Update (MeetBSD, KyivBSD)

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Gerard

We have a quick FreeBSD related events update: one that’s upcoming(MeetBSD) and one that has taken place already (KyivBSD). MeetBSD California 2012 MeetBSD California will be held this upcoming weekend, November 3-4 at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, CA. Josh Paetzel will be presenting “FreeNAS: Storage … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3-RELEASE available

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Gerard

Josh Paetzel from iXsystems has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.3.0: “The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS file system. This is … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1 is available

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeNAS development team (www.freenas.org) has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from FreeNAS SourceForge page: This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8 Plugins

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gerard

FreeNAS 8.2 and newer versions have support for plugins, i.e. extentions in the form of PC-BSD‘s PBIs (Push Button Install). There’s some good plugin documentation available on the FreeNAS website explaining how to use the plugins, how to install the plugins jail, … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS Plugins Part 2: Plugins Configuration (video)

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeNAS Team has uploaded another video showing how to configure the Transmission, Firefly, and MiniDLNA plugins on FreeNAS 8.3.0 and how make them together as a streaming media platform. Video 1 can be watched here

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FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3 available

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Gerard

The FreeNAS team has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.0 as it moves towards the final. “This BETA includes a refactoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 now available

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Gerard

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA, an open source storage platform based on FreeBSD that supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. Most of the changes and updates have gone into AD and LDAP integration and improvements. Support … Continue reading →

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