Plan:
1) Install ESXi ont a usb device using an internal header
2) Passthrough another USB stick and create a datastore to put the FreeNAS VM onto (if I cannot utilise one of the sata ports due to have lack of sata power)
3) Passthrough the HBA to the FreeNAS VM, configuring the VM with adequate h/w and 'best practices'
4) Install FreeNAS, configure pools and present the iSCSI storage and NFS pools, VM will have 1 vmnic to start with
5) Configure the localhost to see the datastore and install vCenter on onto it.
7) Create a vDS and create a port group for the iSCSI vmnic, prior to this create a second vmnic on the VM for the second iSCSI port, when adding the host to the vDS bind each iSCSI port to it's own physical nic
8) use a 3rd nic for the NFS volume and do the same
9) configure other esx hosts for mpio
Does this seem like it will work or is there a better way to do this?
1) Install ESXi ont a usb device using an internal header
2) Passthrough another USB stick and create a datastore to put the FreeNAS VM onto (if I cannot utilise one of the sata ports due to have lack of sata power)
3) Passthrough the HBA to the FreeNAS VM, configuring the VM with adequate h/w and 'best practices'
4) Install FreeNAS, configure pools and present the iSCSI storage and NFS pools, VM will have 1 vmnic to start with
5) Configure the localhost to see the datastore and install vCenter on onto it.
7) Create a vDS and create a port group for the iSCSI vmnic, prior to this create a second vmnic on the VM for the second iSCSI port, when adding the host to the vDS bind each iSCSI port to it's own physical nic
8) use a 3rd nic for the NFS volume and do the same
9) configure other esx hosts for mpio
Does this seem like it will work or is there a better way to do this?
