All the upgraded parts should be in next week, but I'm still not quite sure how I am going to do the storage.
I'm thinking that I'm going to load/boot ESXi from a USB stick
Use the 9211-4i controller to create 2 x 120GB RAID1 SSD Datastore
Use the 9211-8i controller to passthru to FreeNAS VM and create vpool of 4 x 2TB Mirrored vdevs (Gives me the option to upgrade 2 drives at a time to increase storage)
I cant decide if I really want to RAID1 the SSD drives for a single datastore or use them solo for 2 datastores and back the .vmdk files up to the NAS storage. Is there a better solution that I'm not considering?
I'm thinking that I'm going to load/boot ESXi from a USB stick
Use the 9211-4i controller to create 2 x 120GB RAID1 SSD Datastore
Use the 9211-8i controller to passthru to FreeNAS VM and create vpool of 4 x 2TB Mirrored vdevs (Gives me the option to upgrade 2 drives at a time to increase storage)
I cant decide if I really want to RAID1 the SSD drives for a single datastore or use them solo for 2 datastores and back the .vmdk files up to the NAS storage. Is there a better solution that I'm not considering?