Installing TrueNas as a vm on ESXi 6.7 "No drives available"

[dschiltz]

Installing a small version of TrueNas for the storage and some features it offers, SFTP etc. When going to install the OS it can't find the drives assigned. What setting am I missing? We have been using Open-e for this but was looking to make a change. I have tried thin and thick provisioned disks but still no joy.

Thanks.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I have tried thin and thick provisioned disks but still no joy.

Welcome.

Please carefully and thoroughly read the iXsystems blog post about "Yes, you can virtualize FreeNAS (TrueNAS)" here:

TrueNAS enables Container Storage and Kubernetes

The Democratic CSI driver integrates ZFS and TrueNAS into the Kubernetes environment and other container management platforms.

www.ixsystems.com

Pay specific attention to the part about production use and hardware passthrough of PCI devices like your HBA.

Virtual FreeNAS is a bit of a hard row to hoe for your first installation. Is it possible to set it up on a smaller bare-metal server as a proof-of-concept first?