Is running FreeNAS in a virtual machine with the hope of making a not-insignificant amount of data available ever be a good way to go? As far as I can tell, even using ZFS (where the recommendation is ...

I'm looking at using a cheap NAS device with a VMware Esxi server. I was planning to use NFS instead of iSCSI, and saw I know I have two popular options - Openfiler and FreeNAS. I was wondering if ...