ExperientialLearner
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I'm new on the forum and so here saying hello and to ask for some pointers please.
I'm at the planning stage of deploying my FreeNAS which is to replace an aging and slow Netgear ReadyNAS, which has has about 3TB in use.
I have installed and played with Openfiler, Rockstor, Ubuntu/Centos etc but have decided that FreeNAS suits my requirements best mainly for ZFS as I have a spare HP Z600 with ECC RAM together with some spare items like an NVME and a couple of SSDs.
I'm currently running ESXi 6.7U1 on the Z600 and intend to use this box to host FreeNAS as my research shows that running the FreeNAS on Vdisks is ok provided provided I have some redundancyfor the OS boot?
For the main data storage disks I was intending to run on a SAS/SATA controller in passthough mode hooked up to an external disk storage unit.
I suppose my questions are:
1. Does this route sound sensible, provided I follow the "Yes you can virtualise FreeNAS" route? (https://www.freenas.org/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/)
2. Any recommendations for a cards to connect to external storage?
3. Any recommendations for an external DAS storage units that can take about 8 disks?
Any input would be greatly appreciated thanks.
I'm at the planning stage of deploying my FreeNAS which is to replace an aging and slow Netgear ReadyNAS, which has has about 3TB in use.
I have installed and played with Openfiler, Rockstor, Ubuntu/Centos etc but have decided that FreeNAS suits my requirements best mainly for ZFS as I have a spare HP Z600 with ECC RAM together with some spare items like an NVME and a couple of SSDs.
I'm currently running ESXi 6.7U1 on the Z600 and intend to use this box to host FreeNAS as my research shows that running the FreeNAS on Vdisks is ok provided provided I have some redundancyfor the OS boot?
For the main data storage disks I was intending to run on a SAS/SATA controller in passthough mode hooked up to an external disk storage unit.
I suppose my questions are:
1. Does this route sound sensible, provided I follow the "Yes you can virtualise FreeNAS" route? (https://www.freenas.org/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/)
2. Any recommendations for a cards to connect to external storage?
3. Any recommendations for an external DAS storage units that can take about 8 disks?
Any input would be greatly appreciated thanks.
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