zer0fool
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- Jun 2, 2015
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Hey guys. This is my first post here so my apologies if this is not the right forum to post in or if it's already been answered elsewhere. Anyway, here goes:
My intent is to build 2 esxi 5.5 servers in order to perform vmotion between them using freenas as my datastore. Once all is stood up, I'll be setting up a citrix farm. My goal being I want to become a backend and frontend virtualization engineer. I get a taste of both on a regular basis at work (citrix vdi on top of vmware), but want to further my knowledge. Lastly, I'd also like to cifs shares setup for the family and media content.
It's my understanding through research thus far that isci is the best for esxi datastores on freenas. Can someone confirm this? Secondly, will I be able to setup traditional shares over nfs for family users or will ibe limited to just isci throughout. Lastly, does anyone know of any existing guides out there for freenas as esxi datastore that don't suck? I'm planning on 3 vdevs of 8 3tb hd's a piece in one zpool using zfs3.
Any input is appreciated in advance! Oh and feel free to slam me if I asked something dumb or didn't do enough research on something or am completely thinking this the wrong way. I'm here to learn!
Specs (thus far):
freenas box:
Intel E5-1620 V2 Quad Core 3.7Ghz 10MB L3 Turbo 130W LGA 2011 22nm Processor US
IBM M1015 SAS2 SATA3 PCI-e RAID Controller Card LSI SAS9220-8i x2
Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B 24 Bay 4U Chassis 2x 1200Watt PSU
16GB DDR3 PC3-14900 Registered ECC (will add more w/ each paycheck)
segate 3tb hd's x10 (will add more w/ each paycheck)
esxi:
supermicro board
xeon e3 cpu
32gb ecc ram
supermicro 1u chassis
My intent is to build 2 esxi 5.5 servers in order to perform vmotion between them using freenas as my datastore. Once all is stood up, I'll be setting up a citrix farm. My goal being I want to become a backend and frontend virtualization engineer. I get a taste of both on a regular basis at work (citrix vdi on top of vmware), but want to further my knowledge. Lastly, I'd also like to cifs shares setup for the family and media content.
It's my understanding through research thus far that isci is the best for esxi datastores on freenas. Can someone confirm this? Secondly, will I be able to setup traditional shares over nfs for family users or will ibe limited to just isci throughout. Lastly, does anyone know of any existing guides out there for freenas as esxi datastore that don't suck? I'm planning on 3 vdevs of 8 3tb hd's a piece in one zpool using zfs3.
Any input is appreciated in advance! Oh and feel free to slam me if I asked something dumb or didn't do enough research on something or am completely thinking this the wrong way. I'm here to learn!
Specs (thus far):
freenas box:
Intel E5-1620 V2 Quad Core 3.7Ghz 10MB L3 Turbo 130W LGA 2011 22nm Processor US
IBM M1015 SAS2 SATA3 PCI-e RAID Controller Card LSI SAS9220-8i x2
Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B 24 Bay 4U Chassis 2x 1200Watt PSU
16GB DDR3 PC3-14900 Registered ECC (will add more w/ each paycheck)
segate 3tb hd's x10 (will add more w/ each paycheck)
esxi:
supermicro board
xeon e3 cpu
32gb ecc ram
supermicro 1u chassis