If you have no need for ACLs, then why FreeNAS? That's pretty much it's
only usefulness.
I think that you'll find tons of organizations running servers in VMs. I
know of several companies in Calgary that are running 10+ servers in VMs
on 2 or 3 physical servers. It's as solid as a 'real' machine, although
you do have a single point of failure.
In fact, I know of one company in particular that is running close to
30VMs on 4 physical machines. They have VMWare ESX Server, however,
which has far superior resource management than the freebie VMWare server.
On a personal note, I have my Mail server and LAMP server housed in two
separate VMs on a singe machine. Not exactly production level, but it
works well.
As for hooking up the drives, you can either mount the Host OS
disks/partition as shares into the VM using NFS (or CIFS if you're
putting VMWare on Windows) or you can tell VMWare to actually use the
physical disks themselves. I've only seen that done once because it
means that the disks cannot be used by the host OS. I think you'll only
ever see that in a multi-drive machine where the boot drive houses the
"Host" OS and the remaining drives are taken by the VM to make a RAID.
J
Mitchell Brown wrote:
:) I have no idea what a deep AD ACL is even hehe.
I thought about running FreeNAS in VMware. But I'm wondering - how would
one hook it up to drives on the host machine?
Also, isn't it kind of unstable/sloppy to run a server in a virtual
machine? One would think it would cause problems :-/
On 3/1/07, *Jon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
There's a FreeNAS VM available.
We've attempted to integrate it into one of our sites, but the Windows
permissions are not all they're touted to be. The author has
acknowledged that there are problems with the AD ACLs which I
believe he
is hoping to fix in the next version. Of course, if you don't need deep
AD ACLs, then you might not care.
J
Mitchell Brown wrote:
> While we're on the subject: I'm looking for an old box with 128MB of
> RAM. Less then a GHz. I want to make a FreeNAS server. If anyone has
> something I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know :)
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