I am attempting to setup a home server using the iSCSI capabilities of OpenFiler or FreeNAS within a VM on an ESXi 4 server. My questions concern performance, reliability and feature set of the two ...

I'm looking at OpenFiler, FreeNAS, and even just plain old CentOS and NFS for this purpose, but wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on what to use specifically as VM storage for ESX. Bonus would ...

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