Hi all
I am currently building a host with Freenas and esx on the same box, as I have limited gear.
Hardware I have is:
- dell r710 6 drive bays
- 96gb memory
- 4 sas 600gb and 2 250gb ssds
- Lsi hba
- flash drives
I've been struggling with how exactly to set this up.
Currently I have:
- esx booting off a flash drive
- mounted a USB stick and created a data store
- create Freenas vm using the USB stick data store as it's mount
- install Freenas onto the vm using above data store
- passthrough all ssds and hdds attached to the hba to the Freenas vm
I would like to move to a production once I have a decent handle on all this.
Thoughts?
Cheers
I am currently building a host with Freenas and esx on the same box, as I have limited gear.
Hardware I have is:
- dell r710 6 drive bays
- 96gb memory
- 4 sas 600gb and 2 250gb ssds
- Lsi hba
- flash drives
I've been struggling with how exactly to set this up.
Currently I have:
- esx booting off a flash drive
- mounted a USB stick and created a data store
- create Freenas vm using the USB stick data store as it's mount
- install Freenas onto the vm using above data store
- passthrough all ssds and hdds attached to the hba to the Freenas vm
I would like to move to a production once I have a decent handle on all this.
Thoughts?
Cheers