Hi guy ! My route is virtulize everything. Every server I run is virtualize inside VMWare EXSi, but I'm stuck! I have a Asrock H670 itx motherboard and an Intel i5 12600k processor, in vmware I don't have the possibility to activate the "passthrough" on my SATA controller. So I'm looking...

Hi, I'm considering to move my FreeNAS to a bit more modern setup. It's a home file server, no need for fancy video transcoding or things of this sort. I've read a lot on this forum and elsewhere on the caveats of installing FreeNAS as a VM. I believe the main advice was to use a HBA in order...

Dear Community, It's been a while since I've posted, however before I start my new project I would like to have some feedback on what I'm about to do. My System is: Supermicro X10SL7-F E3-1265L v3 32 GB ECC RAM I would like to run FreeNas as a VM passing-through the LSI 2308 to it. On the LSI...

Hey, Does anyone else have this board? Supermicro X10SRL-F... or another X10 E5 2011-3 board, similar to it? (Has C612 chipset) I just picked it up and put it together and I was about to move my disk array over to it when I noticed I don't see the onboard SATA controllers (it has two) in...

Hey there! Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. I just trust these forums much more than others especially since core purpose of this system is FN (even though as VM). I put together a system for a friend to run ESXi 6.5 and run FN and pfSense as VMs. Well, that failed because the...

Hello, Has anyone faced a device list in esxi 6.5 where all devices are "not capable" for passthrough? I have a fresh install of esxi and this is the case for me. The virtualization setting in the MB bios is set to enabled. I can see all the devices including drives and LSI 9211 adapter which...

I have a webserver on an external HDD that I want to migrate to my new FreeNAS box, however, I want to keep all the files on this existing drive. I was thinking of passing it through to my Debian VM, is this possible? If not, is there a good way to permanently mount the drive using a jail as...

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...