Back Up Plugins and Jails on FreeNAS

Back Up Plugins and Jails on FreeNAS

For years, FreeNAS has offered functionality expansion through premade plugins and jails. In Version 11.2, the management platform was updated to make it even easier to manage and create new plugins. Going a step further, snapshots can also be replicated to other FreeNAS or TrueNAS systems to aid with disaster recovery and data protection. If there are replacements or upgrades to the hardware, these images and their data can be moved over to new systems with ease.

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May Plugins Update

May Plugins Update

The next batch of updated Plugins has been released. The updated versions are now available for new installs in the Plugins ⇾ Available section of the UI. Existing plugin installations can be updated to the new versions using the CLI instructions in this post.

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Make FreeNAS your Server OS

Make FreeNAS your Server OS

What if you could have a server OS that had built in RAID, NAS and SAN functionality, and could manage packages, containers and VMs in a GUI? What if that server OS was also free to download and install? Wouldn’t that be kind of awesome? Wouldn’t that be FreeNAS?

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Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS

Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS

This blog provides an overview of creating pools after installing FreeNAS. To begin, we are going to create a pool so storage disks can be allocated and shared. Head over to Storage, then Pools. This window lists all pools and datasets currently on your FreeNAS machine, and will not have any entries until you create a new pool or import a previously created pool. Click Add to create a new pool (or import an existing pool), then give it a name.

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Intel MDS CPU Vulnerability Advisory

Intel MDS CPU Vulnerability Advisory

Dear iXsystems Customers: On May 14th, 2019, Intel released the security advisory below regarding a new CPU microarchitecture vulnerability that affects CPUs with Hyperthreading technology prior to 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors and 2nd Generation...

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