Just a question about my Freenas being virtualized.
I am running esxi 6 with the Sas3008 card being passed through to the Freenas VM. The freenas VM has a 8gb virtual disk. I also gave the VM 24 gigs of ram which are dedicated only to that VM, it has 1 CPU also.
I added 5x 6tb wd red drives on the Sas port (Zraid1) & updated firmware to the latest IT.
My next step is to setup ZFS replication from my main freenas box to this VM. Thats pretty much all this new freenas box will be doing.
Two questions:
1: If I were to remove all 5 drives from this VM & put them into a physical freenas desktop, do a new freenas installation & add these as an existing Zraid to the new freenas, would/should it just 'work' - similar to transferring an existing freenas installation to new hardware?
2: If I were to lose the Freenas installation VM disk & recreate it, should Freenas find the existing disks in the new VM installation (similar question to #1).
Thanks,
Rich