Kiran Kankipati
Dabbler
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- May 8, 2017
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FreeNAS Fans,
Hey guys, I built and deployed a FreeNAS Virtual Machine (VM) with multiple virtual harddrives within physical harddrives spread across.
It is a quite fascinating journey. I shot a detailed video of my build. Looking for your views:
What I am expecting is to have an alternative FreeNAS build unlike typical hardware based build via virtual platform. So that this gives the true flexibility and scalability also mimicing a large storage backup solution. With this build we can easily build a ZFS Z3 pool with minimal number of drives (or just one physical harddrive although this is purely for testing/experimenting purposes) or 1:1 drive mapping too.
There are few considerations though. FreeNAS (and community) never recommend a VM based HDD build. Since this fails to alert us individual drive SMART status and so on unlike real ones. But having said that we can still get away this issue by careful deployment.
cheers !
Hey guys, I built and deployed a FreeNAS Virtual Machine (VM) with multiple virtual harddrives within physical harddrives spread across.
It is a quite fascinating journey. I shot a detailed video of my build. Looking for your views:
What I am expecting is to have an alternative FreeNAS build unlike typical hardware based build via virtual platform. So that this gives the true flexibility and scalability also mimicing a large storage backup solution. With this build we can easily build a ZFS Z3 pool with minimal number of drives (or just one physical harddrive although this is purely for testing/experimenting purposes) or 1:1 drive mapping too.
There are few considerations though. FreeNAS (and community) never recommend a VM based HDD build. Since this fails to alert us individual drive SMART status and so on unlike real ones. But having said that we can still get away this issue by careful deployment.
cheers !