Hi folks, i want to play a bit around with my test environment and try my first steps with virtualization. i found this pic below from a guy whos was already doing this with freenas. Actually the steps for freenas are clear, i would like to get info about the logical setup for other VMs As...

I've progressed through the article on b3n.org about setting up FreeNAS as a VM. Ive given it 2 dedicated cores and 16 GB of dedicated RAM. I followed all the recommendations as best I could. I have the following setup: supermicro x10 srh-clnf4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 (12 core w...

Hi Everyone, Summary: on ESXI host itself (not a vm) read performance over NFSv3 from Freenas, when reading a file completely from ARC, is very slow (13-17MB/s) over 1GbE link. Hoping to pick the brains of some experts on this one. I'm relatively new to the forums, but not to FreeNAS...

Quick Summary: ESXi NFS sequential writes seem to be capped at 250 MB/s when talking to a beefy NFS pool over 10GbE. NOTE: This isn't the usual "why are sync writes slow" question. At least I don't think so. Box #1 VMware ESXi 6.0 U2 Supermicro X9SRE-F, E5-1650V2, 16GB ECC memory Intel...

In my sdetup, I'm using dual-port Chelsio 10G cards throughout my home lab (Chelsio T420-CR and a few T420-LL-CR's, the low latency version, specifically). FreeNAS 9.10.2U3 - soon to be 11RC - is on its own physical server and shares datasets and zvols on Samba and iSCSI respectively. The main...

Hello all! I've for some time now had a 10TB zvol served as an RDM via a Qlogic QLE2462 FC card to a VM running on an ESXi 6.0u2 host. FreeNAS Server Specs: SuperMicro X7DWE board 2x Intel Xeon E5335 4x4GB FBDIMM DDR2 2xIBM M1015 SAS/SATA cards 6x 3TB 7200rpm white label disks The ESXi host is...

Hello Everyone, First off I want to say that I’ve long browsed the online forums for help and ideas on setting up a FreeNAS system and figured it’s now time for me to join in on the discussions and gain some knowledge. I’m fairly new to FreeNAS, but look forward to learning what its full...

Hello Community, I've been researching for the past weeks on hardware and recommended parts for my Freenas build. I'm planning on installing ESXi then run Freenas on a VM with a PFsense VM. My build is as follows: Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Cpu: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6 Kaby Lake Mobo...

Hi, I would like to build NAS for ESXi datastore, but I'm not sure which configuration would be best for this. It must be Cisco UCS server, so there is two option for the config: 1. UCS 240M4 with 10x3.5 10TB 7.2k disks + 2x800GB for ZIL and 1x800 Intel p3700 for L2ARC 2. UCS 240M4 with 22x2.5...

Hi I am trying to use FreeNAS 9.10 in ESXi 5.5 environment. To check the FreeNAS performance I installed on the same ESXi host 3 virtual machines: WIndows server (for tests), and 2 servers as iSCSI targets - Windows 2016 storage server and FreeNAS 9.10. I configured iSCSI targets on 2016 storage...

Hello pros out there, as a beginner I come to you with a question about usability, security and because I am looking to the best solution. I spend the last weeks gathering information and reading manuals and threads and now I am stuck with my initial concept and am not sure whether I should...

After weeks of research, and some playing around in a FreenNAS 9.10 VM, here is my proposed build for an ESXi all-in-one FreeNAS server that will function as a file backup server and Plex media server (one user only), as well as host a few VMs for web development purposes: CPU: Intel Xeon...

I'm trying to add a VM in ESXi to a NFS datastore on my FreeNAS 9.10. When I get to the options for thick/thin provisioning its all greyed out. Looked around found some information about quotas needing to be defined on FreeNAS NFS for thick provisioning. So I added the quota and tried again to...

Hello FreeNAS forums; it's been some time since I've had to post here. I guess in most cases that would be a good thing, lol. So I'm having an issue with regards to my FreeNAS SSD storage zpool that is being sent over iSCSI to my ESXi 6.5 hosts. I have a zPool of three 256gig SSDs that are...

hello Everybody, I am new to the server and NAS conception... I used to build computer when I was a teenager... I am french based in USA NJ. I am already looking the forum and there are many usefull informations... still missing few information, I meaning learning before I really jump into...

Hi, everyone I'm not entirely new to FreeNAS i've been using it at home as a media center for a few years with now issues. I'd like to deploy FreeNAS at a small company of about 10 people. Here is what I have far: Dell Precision T5500 workstation: 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3.07GHz: 72GB of RAM...

We have been using FreeNAS for a year and a half, almost two years. We had an issue last month where the motherboard died and we had to replace it. Luckily we had no data loss, just frustration and worry until it was back up. We currently have a server running ESXI with five VMs in it. We have...

I've run FreeNAS for a number of years now on a very low power AMD E-350 CPU, 16GB DDR3 non ECC RAM, and only the capability of 4 onboard SATA, and limited expansion via 1x PCIe slots after adding a dual port Intel Nic. Great part is it consumes only about 20w with the 4 x 2TB drives. I've kept...

Hi, I'm trying to follow best practice on running FreeNAS under ESXi, after my previous N54L server died, I've reinstalled FreeNas on an ESXi VM (version 8) with a dedicated Highpoint Rocket 640L 4 port SATA controller. This is running a Marvell 88E9230 6 Gb/s controller. I was a little wary of...

I am looking to consolidate my hardware and get rid of all my old stuff, as such below is my new hardware I wish to use. ESXI host with FreeNAS vm HP GL380 G6 with 144GB ram 2 LSI 9211 SAS Cards in IT mode 1 for local VM storage 1 for Direct attached storage for storage another server case...

To preface, this is for my personal home server only, not for business etc. Total overkill but hey, I like overkill. So, I have recently gone through the task of migrating from FreeNAS and VirtualBox to ESXi and FreeNAS. It was an entertaining exercise and I certainly learnt a lot. Here are...

As I understand it FreeNAS is now sort of supported under ESXi as long as you use pass-through. I currently have FreeNAS running on a Super-micro X10SL7-F system flashed to IT. I would like to ideally move this to a system running ESXi with FreeNAS running in a VM supplying storage to the base...

Currently, I have a 480GB mirror of SSDs shared over iSCSI to FreeNAS. It works well but man oh man do VMs eat up space like it is going out of style. My question is this: I have 2 spare 4TB spinning disks, 2 480GB SSDs and 2 80GB SSDs that I can, without too much fuss, free up to make...

I'm putting together a new FreeNAS build. The main hardware issue left is SLOG/L2ARC to get the best chance of good performance/reliability. Hardware - Xeon E5-1620 v3 (4 core, 3.5 GHz+ as I might heavily use CIFS or other single-thread services) 32GB RDIMM 2400 (Amazon have an insanely good...

Hi everyone, I've wanted to see how well FreeNAS would perform in back to back tests on physical vs. virtual hosts on the same hardware for a while now and finally have all the parts together to do some initial testing. My vision is to have a single box that can do it all for my homelab and...

I'm building a ESXi server out for my house to accomplish a few things: FreeNAS Storage pfSense Router Plex Media Server temp ad hoc VMs for personal projects Hardware Case: Fractal Designs Node 804 Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRM-F CPU: Intel E5-2620 v4 Memory: Crucial (32GBx4) 128GB RDIMM...

Hi FreeNAS Forum - Great Forum Hope that you can help me. My new FreeNAS Server hardware: FreeNAS 9.10 - Stable Supermicro X9SRL-F 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2603 V2 1 x 100 GB HDD Boot Disk SATA 2 x 16 GB DDR3-1866 ECC REG 1 x Inter-tech Case IPC Storage 4U-4416 + Delock Cable SAS SFF-8087 to SAS...

Hello FreeNFS comunity support I know that is forum was created by FreeNAS, but Openfiler forum isnt active and I didnt find the help I need about this issue. Sorry. In openfiler, I rename 2 VGs with vgrename and after the volumes with lvrename and editing the /opt/openfiler/etc/volumes.xml...

Hi, I have been looking at the X10SDV-4C-TLN4F motherboard for my home server build. It will be running ESXi and two VMs. One for FreeNAS and one for Sophos. I will pass through an IBM M1015 HBA to the FreeNAS, and this will take up one and the only PCI-E slot on the motherboard. The...