Opportunity to present FreeNAS to future manager (previously : Hellllp)

[BenGonGon]

Hello,
I am student in a High School of management in switzerland and the enterprise network teacher ask me to do a presentation of FreeNAS for all my classmate.

Someone have an idea of important point I need to show?

 

[Ericloewe]

While I am not going to do your homework for you, I can tell you that the more appropriate translation for "Hochschule" is "University".

I suggest you ask yourself what the audience needs to know about FreeNAS and then study those topics.

Once you have more concrete questions, we'll be happy to answer them.

 

[wblock]

If you edit the title of this thread to describe the type of help desired, it might attract people interested in answering those questions. Beyond that, a presentation should start by describing what FreeNAS is. Normally, the next topic would be how it is different from other NAS systems, what advantages and disadvantages it has compared to them.

 

[anodos]

If you edit the title of this thread to describe the type of help desired, it might attract people interested in answering those questions. Beyond that, a presentation should start by describing what FreeNAS is. Normally, the next topic would be how it is different from other NAS systems, what advantages and disadvantages it has compared to them.

Or you can take the approach microsoft used for marketing those surface tablets and show lots videos of people dancing around. I'm pretty sure surface tablets have something to do with skinny jeans, t-shirts, scarves, and dancing. Maybe a techno-beat and repeat the word "synergize" every 5 seconds.

 

[BenGonGon]

Thanks for yours answers

Ericloewe :
1) It is not a homework, it is facultativ. My teacher thought it is a good way to explain what is a NAS. He ask me like a favor if I can do this.
2) If you think the word "University" is a good translation of "haute école spécialisée dans la getion", I use it in my futur post.
3) Since when the university is a democratic environement ?

wblock :
1) you are right, I wrote a shity title. I will correct it as soon as possible.
2) thanks, "advantages and disadvantages" that's a good point to show. Have you seen something on the net like you told me?

anodos :
1) bad approach, I thought about naked woman with the logo of freenas on the ass. On this scene we can add a rain of money and power car in background. For musical theme, heavy metal is a good idea.

Personnal Mind :
I thought that show freenas to futur manager is a good opportunity for FreeNAS community but I could be wrong.

I have 15-20 minutes presentation, in this time, I can present
1) describe volume possibility
2) describe network possibility
3) describe sharing possibility
4) advantages and disadvantages comparison

someone have more idea?

P.S.: Sorry for my bad english

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

Here's what you do for any homework presentation, @BenGonGon: Go to Google and search for 'powerpoint' and your topic. For example, 'powerpoint freenas'. You'll find a couple dozen presentations other people have done on the subject. Review those presentations. That's your outline. Take the best from each and incorporate them into your project.

When you're done, post a link to your presentation here and I'll be happy to review your efforts.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[anodos]

Here's what you do for any homework presentation, @BenGonGon: Go to Google and search for 'powerpoint' and your topic. For example, 'powerpoint freenas'. You'll find a couple dozen presentations other people have done on the subject. Review those presentations. That's your outline. Take the best from each and incorporate them into your project.

When you're done, post a link to your presentation here and I'll be happy to review your efforts.

Cheers,
Matt

Most PPT files I see when googling freenas filetype:ppt are ridiculously old. I'd say just read the freenas handbook, figure out what your audience actually knows about the subject, and if they're the zoolander "Wait! The files are IN the computer?" sort, then have it rain dollars and sports cars.

 

[BenGonGon]

Hello,
I am back
and for you MatthewSteinhoff, I show you my presentation.
And thank you for your help to all.

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

I am back

I'm afraid my understanding of French is poor. I've been out of school for two decades and wasn't really good at French even in school.

I do appreciate you following-up and posting the presentation. What I could understand looked good.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[gpsguy]

where's @Bidule0hm when you need a French speaker in the English forums.

 

[Bidule0hm]

I'm reading the presentation... I'll give you my advices when I finished ;)

 

[Bidule0hm]

So, my advices:

Slide 1: I don't know if FreeNAS is the N°1 worldwide on the NAS market (maybe you wanted to say N°1 of the free NAS solutions, not all NAS solutions), you may want to check that if not already done.

Slide 2: "ne pas être dépendant d'un constructeur" and "pouvoir choisir le hardware librement" are basically the same thing, I guess you can regroup them into one item. One of the main advantage is missing: it uses ZFS which is a copy on write FS and a RAID controller at the same time which gives it a lot of advantages.

Slide 3: The slide is far too short on the history and inaccurate: FreeNAS and NAS4Free aren't two branches, they are forks; FreeNAS was a community maintained software based on FreeBSD and m0n0wall, in 2009 it has been decided FN needed to be rewritten and they switched to a Debian based system (which is now known as OpenMediaVault), then the FreeBSD based version FreeNAS 7 has been renamed to NAS4Free and is still maintained by the community, at the same time iXsystems rewrote FreeNAS using FreeBSD 8 and FreeNAS 8.x was born. Now it's still maintained by iXsystems and is actually at version 9.10 (using FreeBSD 10).

FreeNAS isn't the pro version and NAS4Free isn't the consumer version, they are basically for the same market but have some philosophical differences.

Slide 8: This slide doesn't focus on the main advantages of ZFS IMHO: the 16 EiB limit is a good idea to mention but for the others items: ZFS uses checksums on all the data so what's read is guaranteed to be what's was wrote (but needs ECC RAM to do it properly), it can do snapshots of the data, it can easily replicate the snapshots to another server for backup purpose, it handles compression, deduplication and encryption (NB: encryption is best translated by chiffrement, not by cryptage), it self heals and has some of the most reliable RAID modes actually availables, it can use almost all of the RAM as very efficient cache (called ARC) and it can scale up to thousands of drives arrays.

Slide 9: Strippe is spelled Stripe. Maybe mention N drives mirrors.

Slide 11: maybe talk about vdevs and pools before talking about datasets and zvols. You can use this diagram if you want https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/comprehensive-diagram-of-the-zfs-structure.38865/

Slide 13: sharing protocoles and OS pairs are inaccurate: UNIX systems can mount SMB or NFS (and maybe even AFP) not just NFS for example.

 

[Pitfrr]

Wouldn't it be interesting to also mention TrueNAS?

You wrote: "[...] show freenas to futur manager [...]"
So I'd say that proposing a commercial solution and support (which is what I believe TrueNAS does but I'm not sure) could be of value for a manager. Meaning that it's always good to know that you could rely on commercial support for your solutions. Not all managers are keen to choose a non commercial solution.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yep, good idea, TrueNAS and the FreeNAS Mini are both commercial products from iXsystems for the pro market.

 

[toadman]

Perhaps a language thing, but if the request was "a good way to explain what is a NAS" to a networking class, then storage specifics like vdevs, datasets, zvols, etc are probably WAY too deep for a 20 min presentation. Maybe some conceptual discussion could work, but no way a discussion of a zvol would be necessary (I think)? Or the specifics of ZFS vs whatever. I mean, if these people don't know what a NAS is to start with, which is apparently the case.

Just a thought. :)