Mark WatIng
Explorer
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2017
- Messages
- 53
Hi all,
After a lot of reading and investigation I wanted to test a scenario wth you to see whether my proposed 'build' would/should work.
Build :
What I want to do is run FreeNas as a VM and passthrough the 4x3TB drives to this VM as cleanly as possible. I then want to run 4 other VMs and use the FreeNas storage for data stores but not the VM itself.
Plan of activities:
Do you think this will work?
Many thanks,
Mark.
After a lot of reading and investigation I wanted to test a scenario wth you to see whether my proposed 'build' would/should work.
Build :
- HP Gen 8
- 16GB USB Internal Drive
- 4x3TB WD Drivers attached to the onboard RAID controller (B120i)
- HP P410 RAID Controller installed into the PICE slot.
- 525SSD attached to the HP P410
- Xeon 1265L Processor
- 16GB ECC.
What I want to do is run FreeNas as a VM and passthrough the 4x3TB drives to this VM as cleanly as possible. I then want to run 4 other VMs and use the FreeNas storage for data stores but not the VM itself.
Plan of activities:
- Flash HP Gen8 to latest BIOS
- ESXi 6.5 installed to the internal USB drive.
- Turn of the B120i Raid controller and enable ACHI Mode for the 4x3TB drives.
- Create a FreeNAS VM onto the SSD Card (attached to the H410 Controller) and passthrough the 4x3TB drivers (B120 controller).
- Install and create the other VMs onto the SSD.
- I will then make the FreeNAS Storage available via Shares for Data etc to the VM’s.
Do you think this will work?
Many thanks,
Mark.
Last edited by a moderator: