I want to install freenas in vmware.
I also need a windows installation on the same machine so I tried to install freenas as primary OS but the windows installation had very poor performance.
I found this article (http://www.freenas.org/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/) but i have 2 questions.
1. "The second precaution is to disable any write caching that is happening on the SAN, NAS, or RAID controller itself"
I'm using only dedicated disks not virtual disks.
Do I need to change something to the default instalation to disable write caching?
Also this means that I can't use a dedicated ssd for caching?
2. "If you are not using PCI passthrough (more on that below), then you must disable the scrub tasks in ZFS."
I'm not using PCI passthrough but i am dedicating whole disks for freenas storage with the vmware workstation "use a physical disk" function.
I this case can I use the scrub function of the ZFS file system?
The machine i'm using is a HP Proliant ML10 v2 withe xeon 1230 v3, 24 gb ecc, and the raid controller disabled.
Thank you for all the help.
I also need a windows installation on the same machine so I tried to install freenas as primary OS but the windows installation had very poor performance.
I found this article (http://www.freenas.org/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/) but i have 2 questions.
1. "The second precaution is to disable any write caching that is happening on the SAN, NAS, or RAID controller itself"
I'm using only dedicated disks not virtual disks.
Do I need to change something to the default instalation to disable write caching?
Also this means that I can't use a dedicated ssd for caching?
2. "If you are not using PCI passthrough (more on that below), then you must disable the scrub tasks in ZFS."
I'm not using PCI passthrough but i am dedicating whole disks for freenas storage with the vmware workstation "use a physical disk" function.
I this case can I use the scrub function of the ZFS file system?
The machine i'm using is a HP Proliant ML10 v2 withe xeon 1230 v3, 24 gb ecc, and the raid controller disabled.
Thank you for all the help.