<p dir="ltr">I'm looking to deploy new file servers at work for live network home directories on Mac workstations. FreeNAS looks promising, given that its a nice web GUI with Open Directory (Apple's OpenLDAP & Kerberose solution) compatibility and AFP (Mac file serving) support.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I have a bunch of VM resources that I can allocate to this. So that leaves me wondering if I can do that. I know that ZFS is moot in a VM. Its even counter productive, since it expects to have direct access to the drives.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So what do you think? Could I run FreeNAS using UFS in a VM with about 8GB - 16GB of RAM? Is there another option for Open Directory compatible file serving (AFP, SMB, or NFS) from within a VM? Or even LDAP compatible in general?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks in advance for the advise!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jaime</p>