FreeNAS 10 Corral Installation and Configuration on VMware

FreeNAS 10 Corral Installation and Configuration on VMware

This tutorial shows FreeNAS 10 Corral Installation, Configuration and Overview on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. We also create and configure storage volume and setup Samba/SMB/CIFS share on FreeNAS Corral storage. This tutorial is also helpful to installing FreeNAS 10 on physical computer hardware or bare-metal server.

FreeNAS 10 Corral Installation and Configuration Steps:

1. Download FreeNAS 10 Corral ISO
2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start FreeNAS Installation via Web GUI
4. FreeNAS Initial Configuration
5. Creating Storage Volume
6. Configure and Test CIFS Share
7. FreeNAS 10 Corral Storage Overview

Install and Configure FreeNAS 10 Corral Storage on VMware

What is FreeNAS Storage?

FreeNAS is a free and open-source software network-attached storage (NAS) system based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system. It runs on  x86-64 hardware. FreeNAS supports Windows, OS X and Unix clients and various virtualization hosts such as XenServer and VMware using the SMB, AFP, NFS, iSCSI, SSH, rsync and FTP/TFTP protocols.
FreeNAS Website: http://www.freenas.org/

FreeNAS 10 Corral New Features and Improvements

FreeNAS Corral (formerly known as "FreeNAS 10") is the next release of the world’s most popular Open Source software-defined storage product, FreeNAS. FreeNAS Corral introduces new features such as Docker container support, virtual machine management, a modern graphical user interface, and a powerful command line interface. FreeNAS Corral can be used as NAS (network attached storage) or SAN (storage area network) or as the core of a hyper-converged solution to share data over file- and block-based protocols, deploy containers, and spin up VMs.

FreeNAS 10 Corral Minimum System Requirements

1. The new recommended boot device size is 8GB.
2. FreeNAS Corral requires 8GB of RAM to run properly.

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