In this blog we’re going to work through connecting your FreeNAS box to your ESXi server for easy backups. ESXi is a hypervisor from VMware that is arguably the best ever made. I like it the most because of many reasons, including the fact that it’s free, it’s a non-Microsoft product, and if you need additional features, the licensing is reasonably priced. Now, I’ve already gone through and setup my whole server, so what I’ll do is just retrace my steps here and show how easy this process really is. Lets get started with FreeNAS. I have an old computer that I used for setting up FreeNAS. It’s an ASUS motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Quad (Q6600), 12GB of … Continue reading
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