FreeNAS setup help?
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@scottalanmiller FreeNAS is the OS level software. The only way you can properly access it is by navigating to it's IP from a PC within the LAN.
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Wait... is FreeNAS an application or deployed as a VM?
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@art_of_shred said:
Wait... is FreeNAS an application or deployed as a VM?
It is a software appliance. So it would be deployed as a VM.
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Ok, so it IS the OS, doesn't sit on an OS. Would you deploy that on a blank machine, or on a hypervisor? Sorry for the dumb questions, I just know absolutely nothing about it but want a better grasp so I can help troubleshoot.
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@art_of_shred said:
Wait... is FreeNAS an application or deployed as a VM?
It's an OS + extra stuff. So could be a VM or could be installed directly to hardware. It's not an application.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller FreeNAS is the OS level software. The only way you can properly access it is by navigating to it's IP from a PC within the LAN.
Correct. That doesn't relate to what I had asked though. You said something about being virtual.
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@art_of_shred said:
Ok, so it IS the OS, doesn't sit on an OS. Would you deploy that on a blank machine, or on a hypervisor? Sorry for the dumb questions, I just know absolutely nothing about it but want a better grasp so I can help troubleshoot.
Either. Depends on the situation. Best practice would be "nearly always" on a hypervisor except in cases where it was just mammoth and you were using it to manage software RAID on huge numbers of drives.
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so we could install free VMware and then spin it up as a vm on that. makes more sense to me than right on bare metal.
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@art_of_shred said:
so we could install free VMware and then spin it up as a vm on that. makes more sense to me than right on bare metal.
Yup, exactly.
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This one was an easy fix, but that the issue exists at all is a fragility unique to FreeNAS that does not exist if you only use FreeBSD:
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/911053-freenas-database-corrupt
