FreeNAS and renaming ZFS datasets

While not a feature of FreeNAS at least as of version 8.3 you can actually rename your ZFS datasets. The rename command is feature of ZFS and can be accomplished through the shell. First, use: zfs list [root@NAS-1] /mnt/RaidZ# zfs list NAME                  USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT RaidZ                 306G  2.36T  53.3K  /mnt/RaidZ RaidZ/Backups        8.19G  91.8G  8.19G  …

FreeNAS 8.3 and VMware ESXi’s VMXNet3 adapter

The built-in networking support under FreeNAS 8.3 is only the e1000 adapter and while it does “work” it really lacks performance in a virtual environment. To get around this limitation we need to install VMware Tools to support more modern networking adapters. While this question is ask time and time again in the FreeNAS forums …