I'm looking to build a FreeNAS for the purpose of a file sever and backups. However I'd also like for the physical computer to also host a handful of VMs with VMware workstation.
Yes, I did read the sticky that it's not good to use FreeNAS as a VM, which I don't intend to, but I'd like to somehow install VMware Workstation to also share with the hardware. Is this possible? Here is my choice of hardware:
10x 6TB WD Red WD60EFRX - Hard Drives
1x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO - SSD
ASRock E3C224D4I-14S - motherboard
Inte Xeon E3-1246 v3 3.5ghz - CPU
64gb ddr3 ECC Kingston KVR16R11D4K4/64 - memory
400 watts SeaSonic SS-400FL2 - PSU
Lian Li PC-Q26A - case
Yes, I did read the sticky that it's not good to use FreeNAS as a VM, which I don't intend to, but I'd like to somehow install VMware Workstation to also share with the hardware. Is this possible? Here is my choice of hardware:
10x 6TB WD Red WD60EFRX - Hard Drives
1x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO - SSD
ASRock E3C224D4I-14S - motherboard
Inte Xeon E3-1246 v3 3.5ghz - CPU
64gb ddr3 ECC Kingston KVR16R11D4K4/64 - memory
400 watts SeaSonic SS-400FL2 - PSU
Lian Li PC-Q26A - case