... upgraded to 9.3 and it still rocks! :).
You guys spend so much time to solve problems, I first want to mention that FreeNAS is working absolutely perfect for me.
Over those 2 years, I have done the following things, without FreeNAS giving a hitch:
So, all very happy about this. Now with FreeNAS 9.3 one of my big wishes came true, having virtualisation out of the box. This is really awesome. Given my machine has 24GB of RAM, I have some to spare for a VM or two, and I've been able to set up a VM to sync dropbox to a samba share as well, so now I have dropbox on my NAS :).
Two questions I have that I hope somebody can inform me on:
1) Is there a 'reliability' risk in using my FreeNAS box as a VM Host? Can people with knowledge of the FreeNAS/FreeBSD & virtualbox architecture comment on this? For example, does the virtual machine feature have some kind of kernel module running inside the FreeNAS kernel that could bring the machine down in case that kernel module has a bug? Could it have impact on the storage subsystem or not at all? What's the stability and reliability impact?
2) I'm using many snapshots. I have about 120 active, which isn't that much, but there's a huge amount of rotation. Some are taken every hour, kept 24 hours, some every day, kept a week, ... Is that kind of usage going to affect the speed of ZFS in any way?
Thanks!
You guys spend so much time to solve problems, I first want to mention that FreeNAS is working absolutely perfect for me.
Over those 2 years, I have done the following things, without FreeNAS giving a hitch:
- "Cheated" by setting up a 7 disk raidz2 pool having only 6 disks, using it a few months until I had a controller for the 7th :).
- Twice migrated a 7 disk raidz2 pool to new disks (upgrading it disk by disk), right now I'm at 7x6TB raidz2
- Migrated from an encrypted disk set to a non encrypted disk-set via the "risky" way (disk by disk, manually offlining and then replacing with an unencrypted one)
- Tested the reliability by from time to time randomly detaching a drive, and then resilvering it without issue.
So, all very happy about this. Now with FreeNAS 9.3 one of my big wishes came true, having virtualisation out of the box. This is really awesome. Given my machine has 24GB of RAM, I have some to spare for a VM or two, and I've been able to set up a VM to sync dropbox to a samba share as well, so now I have dropbox on my NAS :).
Two questions I have that I hope somebody can inform me on:
1) Is there a 'reliability' risk in using my FreeNAS box as a VM Host? Can people with knowledge of the FreeNAS/FreeBSD & virtualbox architecture comment on this? For example, does the virtual machine feature have some kind of kernel module running inside the FreeNAS kernel that could bring the machine down in case that kernel module has a bug? Could it have impact on the storage subsystem or not at all? What's the stability and reliability impact?
2) I'm using many snapshots. I have about 120 active, which isn't that much, but there's a huge amount of rotation. Some are taken every hour, kept 24 hours, some every day, kept a week, ... Is that kind of usage going to affect the speed of ZFS in any way?
Thanks!