Comments on: Yes, You Can (Still) Virtualize TrueNAS https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Michael Dexter https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5240 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:45:46 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5240 In reply to Tsukimi.

Proxmox will indeed support TrueNAS and this forum post will provide you some tips: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/freenas-on-proxmox-whats-the-current-state-of-play.84287/

]]> By: Tsukimi https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5239 Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:00:13 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5239 I would like to know does PVE(proxmox ve) accepted?

]]> By: Michael Dexter https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5238 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:18:39 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5238 In reply to Andy.

Andy,
If you are using a hardware RAID controller, no, FreeNAS, nor any other virtual machine will see the individual disks or know if one has failed. The optimal configuration if you only have a hardware RAID controller is to make a RAID 0 “array” of each disk, and pass those over to FreeNAS. You will not see SMART data, but you will have proper block-level access and a failure will be correctly detected.

]]> By: Andy https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5237 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:14:36 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5237 Hello Everybody,
I’m installed the freeNas on vmware esxi 6.5 with one system and one data disk.
The HW is one dell PowerEdge T420 with 6 HDD in RAID5 (HW raid controlling).
If one HDD fall out from the raid, the installed freeNas will be see this error? Or I will see any error in freeNAS?
After the error I normaly chang the hdd, and wait for the rebuild the array.
The freeNAS will until the rebuild normaly work ?
Thanks
Andy

]]> By: Joon Lee https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5236 Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:07:08 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5236 In reply to Benjamin Sisko.

Try asking this question on our forums! You’ll get more eyes on it from the FreeNAS Community.
http://www.ixsystems.com/community

]]> By: Benjamin Sisko https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5235 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 07:26:50 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5235 Hello Everybody,
How about Freenas as a straight VM appliance, only virtualdisks no pci passthrough, on top of a HPE Simplivity hyperconverged vmware cluster (formerly known as Omnistack) where the underlying storage is fully ssd based ?
Anyone has tested a Freenas vm in a hyperconverged infrstructure ?
Thanks.

]]> By: Benjamin Bryan https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5234 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:10:33 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5234 In reply to Phonix.

Hi, Phonix. I did some tests with VMware RDM mapping and FreeNAS awhile back and it did cause data corruption under heavy load (although this was with older hardware and an older version of VMware). Also anytime a drive would fail it was a pain to re-create the RDM mapping to replace the drive. It’s much simpler to give FreeNAS direct access to disks.

]]> By: Joon Lee https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5233 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 23:39:47 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5233 In reply to Phonix.

Yes, you can definitely use an iSCSI target provided by FreeNAS for use as a VMware RDM device. Just make sure the disks come up in Storage > Devices, then on a VM click add hard disk, click raw disk, and select one of the iSCSI disks.

]]> By: Phonix https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5232 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:30:50 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5232 In reply to Phonix.

I meant VMware RDM – raw device mapping

]]> By: Phonix https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/#comment-5231 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:14:59 +0000 http://web.freenas.org/whats-new/?p=1000#comment-5231 What about VMware VM direct disk Access (adding a disk directly to a VM)?
I don’t mean PCI passthrough but disk who are not used for VMFS and added to a VM directly.

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