AKERAIMAIR
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Hi All,
I did not see a topic on this, perhaps because Hyper-V is frowned upon, but I am trying to decide if it is worth it to migrate/upgrade my TrueNAS system from a virtual instance to a physical one. The story behind this is at the time I only had one server (Dell T-3500) available to host any VM's/Servers. I have since obtained a few more "servers." Originally, I had TrueNAS, RHEL8, and a Kali VM running on that server. I have removed the Kali VM and migrated my RHEL server to a physical host. The only VM left on that server is TrueNAS. I am wondering if it's worth it and safe to migrate to a physical instance. My thought process is taking the middle man out of the equation and allowing TrueNAS to handle system resources and monitoring. I currently have replications, snapshots, and rsync backups of my main dataset. Also, I have to monitor S.M.A.R.T. status via Crystal Disk on the physical desktop since Hyper-V does not pass S.M.A.R.T. information (at least from my research) to the VMs. This is a big deal for me as S.M.A.R.T. has saved me a few times.
I did not see a topic on this, perhaps because Hyper-V is frowned upon, but I am trying to decide if it is worth it to migrate/upgrade my TrueNAS system from a virtual instance to a physical one. The story behind this is at the time I only had one server (Dell T-3500) available to host any VM's/Servers. I have since obtained a few more "servers." Originally, I had TrueNAS, RHEL8, and a Kali VM running on that server. I have removed the Kali VM and migrated my RHEL server to a physical host. The only VM left on that server is TrueNAS. I am wondering if it's worth it and safe to migrate to a physical instance. My thought process is taking the middle man out of the equation and allowing TrueNAS to handle system resources and monitoring. I currently have replications, snapshots, and rsync backups of my main dataset. Also, I have to monitor S.M.A.R.T. status via Crystal Disk on the physical desktop since Hyper-V does not pass S.M.A.R.T. information (at least from my research) to the VMs. This is a big deal for me as S.M.A.R.T. has saved me a few times.
- Host OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- Hypervisor: Microsoft Hyper-V Manager / Version 10.0.19041.1
- PC Make/Model: Dell Precision Workstation T-3500
- Motherboard make and model: Dell 0K095G
- CPU make and model: Intel Xeon E5530 @2.4GHz
- RAM quantity: 24.0 GB (Max)
- Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives:
- Boot: CT1000MX500 SSD (Physical)
- da0 is a vhdx
- RAIDZ2
- da1 - ST4000VN008-2DR1 - 4TB
- da2 - ST4000VN008-2DR1 - 4TB
- da3 - ST4000VN008-2DR1 - 4TB
- da4 - ST4000VN008-2DR1 - 4TB
- Boot: CT1000MX500 SSD (Physical)
- Hard disk controllers
- On-board/Standard SATA AHCI Controller.
- Network cards
- On-board - Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
