TrueNas Core 12 as a Vmware Guest is that supported?

[vnavna]

I would like to know if installing Truenas core 12 is supported as running as a Vmware 6.7 guest on hardware that has has its own RAID controller and the storage is all confined to a DAS?
There is not much information on the Truenas website stating if that type of configuration is supported or not.

Thank you

 

[sretalla]

I don't think there's officially any support statement, but there are some community materials that might give you some confidence on how to do it.

"Absolutely must virtualize FreeNAS!" ... a guide to not completely losing your data.

[---- 2018/02/27: This is still as relevant as ever. As PCIe-Passthru has matured, fewer problems are reported. I've updated some specific things known to be problematic ----] [---- 2014/12/24: Note, there is another post discussing how to deploy a small FreeNAS VM instance for basic file...

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The path to success for block storage

It seems like I haven't written a sticky for awhile, but just in the last week I've had to cover this topic several times. ZFS does two different things very well. One is storage of large sequentially-written files, such as archives, logs, or data files, where the file does not have the middle...

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You specifically mentioned a RAID card... read this please:

What's all the noise about HBA's, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

This is relevant to FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE. Some parts of it might also be relevant to Scale, but I don't really know how reliable the Linux drivers are. 1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with...

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[jgreco]

I don't think there's officially any support statement, but there are some community materials that might give you some confidence on how to do it.

Actually I think he might be looking for this:

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...ative-for-those-seeking-virtualization.26095/

Basically, as long as the storage is already protected (by RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, etc), it will be fine, just like any other virtualized FreeBSD install.

If you are hoping to get away with using RAID0 or SATA/NVMe unprotected datastores, then this becomes a really bad idea, because FreeNAS won't have a good way to identify when things are about to go wrong. You probably want to disable I/O-subsystem-crushing things like scrubs as well.