*noob warning*
Hi,
I am currently running HP Microserver N40L with 2x2TB as ZFS stripe-pool and 2x1TB as ZFS mirror on latest v8 of Freenas.
Freenas OS itself is on the USB stick which i boot from.
All this is working lovely, however I need to do some LAB's in future which would require some virtualization so I was thinking of installing ESXI 5.x.
However I don't want to loose the data.
I was thinking of copying contents of 2x1TB mirror to the 2x2TB zfs pool prior to Esxi installation and use those 2 1TB, or at least one of them for vmware storage.
Would be possible (or recommended) to install esxi on USB stick and then create virtual machine inside it with Freenas one, where I can import the old configuration (from current running freenas) and by doing that preserve the 2x2TB zfs pool and its data? Or will I end up with not being to import the volumes?
Also, are there any specific "cons" by having Freenas as virtual machine (from performance and DR perspective)?
Thanks a bunch
Hi,
I am currently running HP Microserver N40L with 2x2TB as ZFS stripe-pool and 2x1TB as ZFS mirror on latest v8 of Freenas.
Freenas OS itself is on the USB stick which i boot from.
All this is working lovely, however I need to do some LAB's in future which would require some virtualization so I was thinking of installing ESXI 5.x.
However I don't want to loose the data.
I was thinking of copying contents of 2x1TB mirror to the 2x2TB zfs pool prior to Esxi installation and use those 2 1TB, or at least one of them for vmware storage.
Would be possible (or recommended) to install esxi on USB stick and then create virtual machine inside it with Freenas one, where I can import the old configuration (from current running freenas) and by doing that preserve the 2x2TB zfs pool and its data? Or will I end up with not being to import the volumes?
Also, are there any specific "cons" by having Freenas as virtual machine (from performance and DR perspective)?
Thanks a bunch