ESXI VM's to FreeNAS 11.1 U6

[Deleted member 37853]

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to move my ESXI VM's to FreeNAS VM's? (Not Jails, not Docker, but FreeNAS VM)

I have a server with ESXI 6.5 and a NAS running FreeNAS 11.1-U6. I want to go back to 1 physical machine. (FreeNAS for storage and the VM's)

Some of the ESXI VM's are Ubuntu Server 16.04, and there is one CentOS7 VM. Can I copy the VMDK to FreeNAS and import them or something similar? (OVF for example?)

Please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[sretalla]

You're probably better off keeping ESXi and making FreeNAS one of the VMs in it (passing through the storage controller).

If you really want FreeNAS as the bare-metal host, then would be a case of taking the VMDK and going through a fiddly process to make it work in bhyve... like this article describes https://justinholcomb.me/blog/2016/03/26/migration-to-freebsd-part4.html