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Installation Of Freenas

FreeNAS is free and open-source and cross-platform Network-Attached Storage (NAS), software based on FreeBSD. It can be installed virtually on any hardware platform to share data over a network. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, backup, all of your data. This tutorial covers the method to install FreeNAS.

Installing FreeNAS

First, boot the Free-NAS ISO image into Vmware Workstation and cross-check the virtual machine settings.

snap1 Now, the OS has started the boot process, so please select option 1 to install Free-NAS. snap2 snap3 If Ram is bellow recommend 8GB RAM click yes to continue process snap4

Here, you need to select the disk and click OK. snap5

Now, again select Yes, and click OK to proceed if you using fresh disk for installation. snap6 You should now set a root password for FreeNAS. snap7 Select the boot mode via bios snap8 After completing the installation, click OK and then select option to reboot. snap9 Now you need to make the basic network configuration. Here, we are going to set static IP for Free-NAS snap10 snap11 snap12

System network is restarted now snap13 Go to browser and your ipadress and port number snap14

With this the installation of Freenas comes to end

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What are the hardware requirements for FreeNAS?

A

Minimum 4GB memory is required.

A minimum 20 GB direct-attached disk is required.

Recommended 64 bit system architecture is required.

One physical networking port is required.

Q

What is FreeNAS?

A

FreeNAS is free and open-source Network-Attached Storage (NAS), software-based on FreeBSD.

It can be installed virtually on any hardware platform to share data over a network.FreeNAS is a top choice among the users who want to share content across multiple platforms like Linux, Apple, and Windows.

Q

Is FreeNAS Safe and Secure?

A

FreeNAS is based on the highly secure FreeBSD operating system and follows security best practices in development. However, FreeNAS is not designed as security software and it depends on being protected from hostile traffic by a properly configured firewall. FreeNAS supports 256-bit encryption to prevent drives from being read if they’re physically removed from the system, but this doesn’t protect against data being read in transit over the network or via compromised user credentials. Like all software, FreeNAS depends on good security practices to keep data safe.

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How do I upgrade FreeNAS?

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FreeNAS provides a built-in Update Manager, allowing the administrator to determine when to apply system patches and new features. When the system is updated, a copy of the current operating system is added to the boot menu, making it easy to revert to the previous version of the operating system should the update fail. Administrators can also track different versions of FreeNAS, in order to test new drivers and features, knowing that they can still return to the previous version of the operating system from the boot menu.

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Why does FreeNAS only support the ZFS filesystem?

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FreeNAS is designed around the OpenZFS filesystem, which enables many of the advanced features of FreeNAS such as data integrity, early indication of faulty drives, and the ability to boot into a previous working copy of the operating system after a failed upgrade. Other filesystems, including UFS, NTFS, FAT, EXT2 and EXT3 are supported “read only”, in order to allow data migration onto a ZFS volume.

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