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FreeNAS, Openfiler, Microsoft iSCSI performance shootout

Gerard — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:17:45 +0000

agrikk has taken a look at the performance capabilities of three free iSCSI Target software platforms: FreeNAS, Openfiler, and Microsoft iSCSI Target. “The purpose of his test was to find the best performing iSCSI target with all other things being equal. Under this criteria alone, it would be a split decision between Openfiler and Microsoft. However, the Microsoft solution [...]

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7 FreeNAS Alternatives

Gerard — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:38:52 +0000

FreeNAS is a great NAS (Network Attached Server) operating system, but it’s not the only one. “There are multiple reasons behind looking for FreeNAS alternatives. Despite the software being a popular choice and also intuitive to use for sharing content across multiple platform like Linux, Apple and Windows, there are always a few drawbacks that [...]

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OpenFiler Installation Tutorial

Gerard — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:13:15 +0000

If you’re interested in setting up OpenFiler, check out this 9:04 minutes video created by spconroy, showing step-by-step how to install OpenFiler in Oracle VirtualBox. OpenFiler Installation Tutorial About OpenFiler: Openfiler is an open source Network Storage solution including many features such as High Availability, NFS Exports, iSCSI Luns, and SMB Shares. OpenFiler was created by Xinit Systems, [...]

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Create your own personal media cloud using OpenFiler

Gerard — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:25:04 +0000

If you follow the steps as described on extremetech.com you can set up your own personal cloud using free programs and an old PC. What you need is: An old PC A copy of Openfiler, an open Linux-based OS that focuses on creating a user- and group-based server system that works by creating network shares [...]

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How to set up an iSCSI Target in OpenFiler

Gerard — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:24:28 +0000

Mr SecaGuy has put together a very useful step-by-step tutorial showing how you can set up a iSCSI target in OpenFiler: Create iSCSI target in OpenFiler. “If you have a SAN storage, or a dedicated server to serve as file and storage service to other server, I am suggesting you to use Openfiler. This operating system is specifically [...]

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Openfiler 2.3 Active/Passive Cluster with offsite replication node

Gerard — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:09:56 +0000

howtoforge.com has put together an step-by-step tutorial showing how to set up OpenFiler cluster with offsite replication mode: “Openfiler is a Linux based NAS/SAN application which can deliver storage over nfs/smb/iscsi and ftp. It has a web interface over that you can control these services. The cluster we build will consist of two nodes replicating [...]

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Creating a NAS Box Using OpenFiler

Gerard — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:17:41 +0000

“In a recent article we saw how easy it is to take an existing server and enable NFS, effectively turning it into a NAS box (See Creating a NAS Box with an Existing System). The steps are fairly simple and nearly all Linux distributions come with NFS (excluding some of the embedded or specialized distributions). [...]

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Use OpenFiler as Free VMware ESX SAN Server

Gerard — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:48:59 +0000

“Many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features cannot be used without a SAN (storage area network). Besides the high cost of the ESX Server software and the Virtual Infrastructure Suite, a SAN can be a huge barrier to using VMware ESX and features like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler [...]

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The greatest open source software of all time: OpenFiler

Gerard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:01:17 +0000

There are many open source software gems. InfoWorld has awarded the 2009 Bossies (Best of Open Source Software Awards). The award is presented to the forty best free business applications. OpenFiler caught the InfoWorld reviewers’ special attention. The flexible NAS solution also scooped the best SAN tool award: “OpenFiler is a SAN/NAS appliance based on [...]

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The wonderful world of low cost storage appliances

Gerard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:41:23 +0000

Marc from techmoments.com looks at 3 cheap/free data storage solutions and discusses FreeNAS, OpenFiler and the D-Link DNS 323: So, you have alot of old equipment hanging around? What is that you say? You also suddenly have the need to set up remote storage? Well, let me tell you, of all the times to need [...]

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