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I was going to mention the html5 option :)
I have FN 1 cpu and I think 8 or 16gb mem for a 4tb mirror. Works great.
Didn't read whole thread, so if mentioned, disregard. But, take a look at both bios and ipmi updates from supermicro. Some are critical some are recommended. Fairly simple and straight forward to do. Then, you'll need to flash the HBA to IT mode if it isnt already in order to pass control of the drives over to FN.
Then in esxi, first enable passthrough on the controller under Host>Manage>Hardware tab. And when you add FN vm, the controller will show up, but before the passthrough works, you have to click Add other device up top of the form and add PCI device where in my case showed SAS controller. This last bit prevented me from seeing drives in FN for a while.
If you get stuck post and if I can I'll try to help. Good luck!
That's good to hear @ChrisNAS. I had a bit of a play with jails initially, but the more I read the more I thought ESXi was worth giving a go. The only downside may be the resource allocation thing, but I'm hoping it won't be an issue. If FreeNAS is doing nothing but storage + cloud backups, how many vCPUs would you give it?
My hardware has finally finished arriving today, so I've put the mobo/cpu/ram together. Got IPMI working without any trouble (except it uses java, ugh! installed in windows sandbox for now). I'm running memtest on it and no problems so far. Next step will be to do a USB FreeNAS install and read the disk burn in thread!
Edit: Just found the HTML5 link in IPMI. Bit clunky, but I'll call that a win!
I was going to mention the html5 option :)
I have FN 1 cpu and I think 8 or 16gb mem for a 4tb mirror. Works great.
Didn't read whole thread, so if mentioned, disregard. But, take a look at both bios and ipmi updates from supermicro. Some are critical some are recommended. Fairly simple and straight forward to do. Then, you'll need to flash the HBA to IT mode if it isnt already in order to pass control of the drives over to FN.
Then in esxi, first enable passthrough on the controller under Host>Manage>Hardware tab. And when you add FN vm, the controller will show up, but before the passthrough works, you have to click Add other device up top of the form and add PCI device where in my case showed SAS controller. This last bit prevented me from seeing drives in FN for a while.
If you get stuck post and if I can I'll try to help. Good luck!