As part of the effort to reach that goal I added the PCI card to host the SSD boot drive so that it would be physically separated from the other drives. My plan thus far has been to pass-through the entire onboard 4-port sata controller to FreeNas and then share that storage back to the other VM’s as needed. That all worked like it should confirming the hardware is all compatible and it now provides me fail over to recoved my FreeNAS data should my virtualization environment go to crap. This is just a home setup, so nothing mission critical here, but I would like the emphasis to placed on reliability and data security.Īfter reading the good advice offered in the “ how not to lose your data” post (and after screwing up my first ESXi deployment) I wiped my boot drive, and first installed FreeNAS on a bootable USB drive, loaded FreeNAS and created a mirrored volume on the two 4TB drives. If I can get all this working as I expect I plan on adding two more 4 TB drives to the server and setting the 4 drives up in Z2 array. pdf guide for newbies on how to setup FreeNAS and not make stupid storage decisions. In the end I would like to setup FreeNAS to serve media files and provide a backup storage location for photos and the like.īefore I got too far into the project I read the great post by on “ how not to lose your data” when running FreeNAS in a virtualized environment along with the complete. I will also use a VM as an NVR with the intention of FreeNAS providing the storage for video recordings. FreeNAS boots as it should running as a VM. I have successfully deployed a VM’s with data stores located on the SSD along with one for FreeNAS.
I have installed ESXi 6.5 on the SSD and it boots and functions as it should. That being said this is my fist go at both vitalization and FreeNAS.Īs I mentioned I have a SuperMicro X8DTU-F Server with the following hardware: ( )Ģ x 4TB Ironwolf HDD (Installed in Server Drive Bays attached to the onboard Intel ICH10 Controller)ġ20 GB Intel SSD Boot Drive (Installed on a separate PCI Card: )
I’m not an IT guy by trade but consider myself an enthusiast with a reasonable bit of experience. I bought an old SuperMicro 1U server to play with intending to setup a small home virtualization lab. Before I go any further I would like to provide a little background on what I have and have done up to this point.
I’m having an issue passing through my onboard SATA controlled from ESXi 6.5 to a FreeNAS VM and was hoping I might get a little help. Hello all, I’m new here and I’ve run into a roadblock.
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