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    TrueNAS vmware ESXi - Passthrough issue

    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...
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    Supermicro MOBO SATA passthrough + ESXi - will it work?

    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...
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    Running FreeNAS as a VM (off USB or SSD)

    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...
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    X10SRL-F w/ ESXi -- can't passthrough onboard SATA?

    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...
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    Properly FreeNAS on this build?

    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...
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    Problem with Device Passthrough on ESXi 6.5

    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...
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    FreeNAS 11; is there a way to pass through USB to a VM?

    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...
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    ESXi FreeNAS with Passthrough controller GEOM confusion

    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...
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    ESXi FreeNAS on server hardware

    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...
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