Hello, I'm not exactly sure where to post this, but I'm hoping someone can at least point me in the right direction.
For reasons I don't really feel like explaining, I need to take my current FreeNAS 8.0 server and convert it over to a VMWare ESXi server. For the time being (hopefully only a few months), I'm going to run FreeNAS in a virtual machine inside VMWare. What's the best way to go about this migration without losing data and settings. Ideally, I want to backup the FreeNAS install and my data, take the raid array's offline (and physically disconnect the drives from the controller card), format the OS drive, install VMWare ESXi, re-install FreeNAS, plug back in the arrays and add them back to the server and have everything up and running.
I'm lost as to the best way to backup the FreeNAS restore and how to deal with the array drives so that I just have to plug the drives back in to get up and running. Absent specific system configurations, what's the best way for me to take everything down and get it back up in a fresh install?
Thanks!!
For reasons I don't really feel like explaining, I need to take my current FreeNAS 8.0 server and convert it over to a VMWare ESXi server. For the time being (hopefully only a few months), I'm going to run FreeNAS in a virtual machine inside VMWare. What's the best way to go about this migration without losing data and settings. Ideally, I want to backup the FreeNAS install and my data, take the raid array's offline (and physically disconnect the drives from the controller card), format the OS drive, install VMWare ESXi, re-install FreeNAS, plug back in the arrays and add them back to the server and have everything up and running.
I'm lost as to the best way to backup the FreeNAS restore and how to deal with the array drives so that I just have to plug the drives back in to get up and running. Absent specific system configurations, what's the best way for me to take everything down and get it back up in a fresh install?
Thanks!!