Hi guys,
I've had a pretty rough time after upgrading to 9.2.1.7 and then 9.2.1.8 getting my Time Machine backups to work. I was formerly using 9.2.1.3 as a VM on Hyper-V and didn't run into hardly any issues at all until I ran out of space on the disk I was using. I decided to change the disk and give FreeNAS an upgrade as well (as it had been 6 months without an update) and found that I couldn't get my 10.9.5 Mavericks install to back up anymore.
Anyway, after trawling the internet, I found an interesting PowerPoint from some Microsoft Devs at from this year's TechEd and found that you have actually already made a Hyper-V supported VM whilst they have begun their quest to support FreeBSD. It might only be 9.2.1 (available here: http://download.freenas.org/9.2.1/HYPERV/RELEASE/) but after having enough with the 9.2.1.8 issues and AFP just not playing nice anymore, I decided to try it out. Not only is all the Hyper-V hardware supported out of the box but it is also blazing quick compared with having to use the legacy network adapter option (when I say super quick, I was getting between 3-7MB/s transfer from the Mac before and now I'm getting 35 - 45MB/s using the standard Hyper-V Network Adapter). To the inevitable trolls: this is an eco single disk only and that's OK for me since it's in a VM so please hang fire on the sarcastic "mine's better than yours" comments,
So back on point; I just wondered if it would be too much to ask if Hyper-V support can now be added as standard to the images since it's a brilliant performance boost and allows people like me who already have a server to not have to buy more Apple only kit for a single purpose.
Thanks for your help!
Barry
I've had a pretty rough time after upgrading to 9.2.1.7 and then 9.2.1.8 getting my Time Machine backups to work. I was formerly using 9.2.1.3 as a VM on Hyper-V and didn't run into hardly any issues at all until I ran out of space on the disk I was using. I decided to change the disk and give FreeNAS an upgrade as well (as it had been 6 months without an update) and found that I couldn't get my 10.9.5 Mavericks install to back up anymore.
Anyway, after trawling the internet, I found an interesting PowerPoint from some Microsoft Devs at from this year's TechEd and found that you have actually already made a Hyper-V supported VM whilst they have begun their quest to support FreeBSD. It might only be 9.2.1 (available here: http://download.freenas.org/9.2.1/HYPERV/RELEASE/) but after having enough with the 9.2.1.8 issues and AFP just not playing nice anymore, I decided to try it out. Not only is all the Hyper-V hardware supported out of the box but it is also blazing quick compared with having to use the legacy network adapter option (when I say super quick, I was getting between 3-7MB/s transfer from the Mac before and now I'm getting 35 - 45MB/s using the standard Hyper-V Network Adapter). To the inevitable trolls: this is an eco single disk only and that's OK for me since it's in a VM so please hang fire on the sarcastic "mine's better than yours" comments,
So back on point; I just wondered if it would be too much to ask if Hyper-V support can now be added as standard to the images since it's a brilliant performance boost and allows people like me who already have a server to not have to buy more Apple only kit for a single purpose.
Thanks for your help!
Barry