Hi Everyone,
I would really appreciate some help on this. I got to the point where I couldn't deal with the poor performance of Bhyve VMs on FreeNAS (it really is broken) and recently have moved back to VMware for VMs.
My architecture is:
My question is when I reboot the server, ESXi comes up first obviously and tries to NFS mount the FreeNAS volume but can't (as FreeNAS hasn't started yet when ESXi first comes up) and so it looks stale and the VMs don't register. To get it working again effectively I have to remove the NFS mount and remount it and then re-register the VMs each time I reboot which isn't a great solution obviously.
Is there another way to deal with this? I would really appreciate any guidance.
Thank you :)
Charles
I would really appreciate some help on this. I got to the point where I couldn't deal with the poor performance of Bhyve VMs on FreeNAS (it really is broken) and recently have moved back to VMware for VMs.
My architecture is:
- ESXi 6.7 on bare metal with a small local SSD hosting the FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 VM.
- FreeNAS has all the other drives passed through and has a volume serving back a datastore to ESXi for other VMs via NFS v4.1.
My question is when I reboot the server, ESXi comes up first obviously and tries to NFS mount the FreeNAS volume but can't (as FreeNAS hasn't started yet when ESXi first comes up) and so it looks stale and the VMs don't register. To get it working again effectively I have to remove the NFS mount and remount it and then re-register the VMs each time I reboot which isn't a great solution obviously.
Is there another way to deal with this? I would really appreciate any guidance.
Thank you :)
Charles