I have been looking at building a programming server and a NAS server. I want a Ryzen for the first part and I think I want to use FreeNAS for the second part. After seeing the release of FreeNAS 11 and its virtualization feature Bhyve I wondered: Would it be a good idea to combine them? Have one computer running FreeNAS with a virtual machine running Linux. This would be my first use of FreeNAS, FreeBSD and BSD in general.
Is using FreeNAS on a Ryzen a good idea? I don't know what the hardware support is like, ECC in particular. Does FreeNAS/Bhyve support AMD's virtualization features?
I haven't settled on any specific hardware yet other than the CPU (AMD Ryzen 7 1700) and maybe the motherboard (ASUS Prime B350 Plus). Other than that: 32 or 64 GB unbuffered ECC DDR4 RAM, NVMe boot disk, 4 maybe more 3.5 inch storage drives depending on total cost, quality power supply.
Thank you for your time.
Is using FreeNAS on a Ryzen a good idea? I don't know what the hardware support is like, ECC in particular. Does FreeNAS/Bhyve support AMD's virtualization features?
I haven't settled on any specific hardware yet other than the CPU (AMD Ryzen 7 1700) and maybe the motherboard (ASUS Prime B350 Plus). Other than that: 32 or 64 GB unbuffered ECC DDR4 RAM, NVMe boot disk, 4 maybe more 3.5 inch storage drives depending on total cost, quality power supply.
Thank you for your time.