Hello guys,
I'm hoping someone with experience can help me out here. I have a FreeNAS box running at home on a dedicated box (Pentium D 2.8 w/ 2 x 1TB drives ZFSz1 (mirror) & 4GB RAM) and I'm moving to another province, so I want to move this box to the cloud. It is used as my primary data storage for personal stuff.I also have a few online VPS's (Web/Mail/FTP/VPN) which I want to consolidate onto a single dedicated server. The problem is that I can't use ESXi as ZFS on top of a VMDK is not a good idea and while the dedicated box supports VT-d (it's a Xeon X3470 w/ 16GB RAM & 2 x 1TB WD RE4 drives) if I enable passthrough on the controller I don't have a place to host the datastore.
I was thinking about just installling FreeNAS on the dedicated box and running the necessary VPS's inside jaail's (I've been assigned a public /29 = 5 usable IP's) though I'm worried about having the FreeNAS using a public address for security reasons.
Ideally, I'd like some kind of hypervisor (either Xen or KVM though maybe bhyve on FreeBSD 10 would work) with a virtualized firewall (i.e. pfsense or openbsd w/ PF) and the FreeNAS behind an OpenVPN firewall (as it presently is).
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Please let me know if this needs any further clarification.
Thanks,
I'm hoping someone with experience can help me out here. I have a FreeNAS box running at home on a dedicated box (Pentium D 2.8 w/ 2 x 1TB drives ZFSz1 (mirror) & 4GB RAM) and I'm moving to another province, so I want to move this box to the cloud. It is used as my primary data storage for personal stuff.I also have a few online VPS's (Web/Mail/FTP/VPN) which I want to consolidate onto a single dedicated server. The problem is that I can't use ESXi as ZFS on top of a VMDK is not a good idea and while the dedicated box supports VT-d (it's a Xeon X3470 w/ 16GB RAM & 2 x 1TB WD RE4 drives) if I enable passthrough on the controller I don't have a place to host the datastore.
I was thinking about just installling FreeNAS on the dedicated box and running the necessary VPS's inside jaail's (I've been assigned a public /29 = 5 usable IP's) though I'm worried about having the FreeNAS using a public address for security reasons.
Ideally, I'd like some kind of hypervisor (either Xen or KVM though maybe bhyve on FreeBSD 10 would work) with a virtualized firewall (i.e. pfsense or openbsd w/ PF) and the FreeNAS behind an OpenVPN firewall (as it presently is).
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Please let me know if this needs any further clarification.
Thanks,
