francisaugusto
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Hi,
I'm considering to move my FreeNAS to a bit more modern setup. It's a home file server, no need for fancy video transcoding or things of this sort.
I've read a lot on this forum and elsewhere on the caveats of installing FreeNAS as a VM. I believe the main advice was to use a HBA in order to get the disks assigned exclusively to the OS/VM.
But I've seen very little on successful cases of internal SATA controller passthrough. My plan is to either get a SuperMicro E300-8D or its motherboard and mount it on a Node 304 case. This seems like a good choice to me as I would have a compact form factor but with plenty of room for my storage needs and 10GBe network as well.
Therefore, I would like to avoid relying on an HBA, as it might not fit the E300-8D-chassis, or might be too big for node 304 case. Either way, anyone running a similar, SuperMicro based setup + ESXi + storage passthrough?
I'm considering to move my FreeNAS to a bit more modern setup. It's a home file server, no need for fancy video transcoding or things of this sort.
I've read a lot on this forum and elsewhere on the caveats of installing FreeNAS as a VM. I believe the main advice was to use a HBA in order to get the disks assigned exclusively to the OS/VM.
But I've seen very little on successful cases of internal SATA controller passthrough. My plan is to either get a SuperMicro E300-8D or its motherboard and mount it on a Node 304 case. This seems like a good choice to me as I would have a compact form factor but with plenty of room for my storage needs and 10GBe network as well.
Therefore, I would like to avoid relying on an HBA, as it might not fit the E300-8D-chassis, or might be too big for node 304 case. Either way, anyone running a similar, SuperMicro based setup + ESXi + storage passthrough?