Hello everybody,
I am evaluating to deploy a freenas as a straight vm, in a production environment as smb fileserver for a small group of people (about 25 clients).
Basically i need a lot of snapshots (10 x working day and 3 month retention), and zfs look to be the only able to handle them quite well.
Will be a vm without pci passtrough, and zfs pool will be set without dedupe and compression.
So, i would like to know the experiences, bad an good, of someone who has run freenas as plain vm in a similar condition, for long time.
Of course, following suggestion on blog "Yes you can virtualize freenas", but without disk controller pci passtrough, just vmdk virtual disk.
Another question.
Has someone experiences with freenas for same purpose as above but in a hyperconverged infrastructure, like HP simplivity (former omnistack) or Nutanix ?
Thanks a lot for your time and patience about my long post.
I am evaluating to deploy a freenas as a straight vm, in a production environment as smb fileserver for a small group of people (about 25 clients).
Basically i need a lot of snapshots (10 x working day and 3 month retention), and zfs look to be the only able to handle them quite well.
Will be a vm without pci passtrough, and zfs pool will be set without dedupe and compression.
So, i would like to know the experiences, bad an good, of someone who has run freenas as plain vm in a similar condition, for long time.
Of course, following suggestion on blog "Yes you can virtualize freenas", but without disk controller pci passtrough, just vmdk virtual disk.
Another question.
Has someone experiences with freenas for same purpose as above but in a hyperconverged infrastructure, like HP simplivity (former omnistack) or Nutanix ?
Thanks a lot for your time and patience about my long post.