Amahi / Greyhole – Alternatives to Windows Home Server (Vail)?

November 26, 2010, 11:25 pm

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Microsoft dropped the Drive Extender (DE) functionality from Windows Home Server (Vail) this week, to the surprise and disbelief of the WHS community. Drive Extender allowed users to dynamically shrink and grow their WHS storage pool and enable folder level duplication to protect important files. In Vail DE promised some great new features – such [...]

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Installing FreeNAS 8 on VMware vSphere (ESXi)

May 15, 2011, 11:01 pm

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FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform and version 8 benefits not only from a complete rewrite – it also boats a new web interface and support for the ZFS filesystem. It is also worth mentioning that FreeNAS supports Advanced Format drives (something that my Windows Home Server does not). The features of ZFS are [...]

Installing Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1 With Nappit on VMware vSphere 4.x

July 3, 2011, 10:12 pm

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I have been mulling over what exactly the eventual replacement for my Windows Home Server might be one day – and Nexenta is something that I have been pondering for a while. The Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) is what the commercial (and community) versions of Nexenta (NexentaStor) are built upon. NCP is based on Ubuntu, [...]