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FreeNAS not using all installed RAM
I have just installed FreeNAS 7.3 in an Alix.2 board with 256 MB physical RAM on-board. Nothing configured, nor hard disks attached. The problem is the OS is only using 51MB of that amount. The graph...
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grow/shrink a zfs RAIDZ
I’m going to build a freenas server, would like to make sure what I can do with such magical and advanced zfs. If I have a 3TB * 5 in RAIDZ (12TB storage in total), now I am trying to add another 2 *...
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How to implement cheap LFF 3.5“ SATA storage on a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 with...
In a series of bad, hasty decisions, a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server was bought for file server use at my place of work. The intention was to build a FreeNAS 8 server using cheap 3.5″ SATA drives. Only...
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Esxi iSCSI slow
I have a server with ESXi 5 and iSCSI attached network storage(4x1Tb Raid-Z on freenas). Those two machines are connected to each other with Gigabit ethernet, and a procurve switch in between. After a...
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Raidz in FreeNAS eating more space than expected
I just got 6 new 2TB drives, and added them to my FreeNAS box. I have only dealt with RAID1 previously, and each setup has given what I was expecting. However, with the 6*2TB drives, I wanted to...
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Can I use google aps login to authenticate users in FreeNAS?
I want to setup FreeNAS as a central file repository for all my employees to access company related data. A lot of our infrastructure operates on Google Apps including Android phones. I would like to...
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How do I connect my FreeNAS File Server to my Mac OS X Directory Server?
I am trying to connect my File Server (FreeNAS 8.0.1 / 8.2-RELEASE-p7) with my Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Directory Server’s Open Directory… I know that Mac OS X provides an LDAP service via which other...
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Converting from OpenSolaris (EON) to FreeNAS
I have a 6TB RaidZ ZFS array configured on my nv129 based OpenSolaris filer, and I want to upgrade to FreeNAS as painlessly as possible. I remember betas had warnings that they did not support...
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Non-ECC memory with ZFS: a stupid idea? [closed]
I’m the proud new owner of an HP Proliant Microserver N40L, and planning to upgrade the paltry 2 GB of memory to the maximum of 16 GB. (Theoretically 8 GB is the limit, but empirically 16 GB has been...
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How can I get FreeNAS and pfSense to report more using SNMP?
I have two servers which run variants of FreeBSD: One is a pfSense router and one is a FreeNAS 8 server. Both these servers run SNMP, and I am collecting and graphing their information using a third...
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