thecoffeeguy
Dabbler
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2014
- Messages
- 39
Greetings folks.
I will try to get to the point, but let me explain how I got here.
I originally set out to play around with FreeNAS in my home lab (2 ESXi servers running test/dev stuff for work).
I wanted to build my own NAS as I enjoy tinkering around and found it more cost effective than a off the shelf purchase.
Anyway, as my lab continued to evolve and grow, where as FreeNAS was more of a luxury for my lab, now it is turning into a necessity. It has forced me to rethink how I want to use it moving forward, make it better. That said:
I am currently on 11.2U-7. I run FreeNAS off a USB stick.
Everything has been good so far except for a degraded drive that I replaced recently.
Now, I have been thinking a lot about performance for my FreeNAS as I have a share setup to my ESXi hosts over NFS and drop my VMs there.
My main hope in asking the folks here is, how do I get/maintain performance for my VM's running off my FreeNAS? This is where I am really new and delving into new territory and I plan to google a lot these next days. In the meantime, I thougth i would ask here.
Specs on my FreeNAS server:
Intel Pentium 3.2ghz 2 core
16gb memory
(2) 2TB WD Red Drives (I plan to buy more drives shortly)
Dual onboard NIC
Added Intel NIC (2 slots)
Nothing fancy, but it works for the moment.
However, my instincts are telling me I need to start thinking ahead.
Appreciate all the help.
Thank you!
TCG
I will try to get to the point, but let me explain how I got here.
I originally set out to play around with FreeNAS in my home lab (2 ESXi servers running test/dev stuff for work).
I wanted to build my own NAS as I enjoy tinkering around and found it more cost effective than a off the shelf purchase.
Anyway, as my lab continued to evolve and grow, where as FreeNAS was more of a luxury for my lab, now it is turning into a necessity. It has forced me to rethink how I want to use it moving forward, make it better. That said:
I am currently on 11.2U-7. I run FreeNAS off a USB stick.
Everything has been good so far except for a degraded drive that I replaced recently.
Now, I have been thinking a lot about performance for my FreeNAS as I have a share setup to my ESXi hosts over NFS and drop my VMs there.
My main hope in asking the folks here is, how do I get/maintain performance for my VM's running off my FreeNAS? This is where I am really new and delving into new territory and I plan to google a lot these next days. In the meantime, I thougth i would ask here.
Specs on my FreeNAS server:
Intel Pentium 3.2ghz 2 core
16gb memory
(2) 2TB WD Red Drives (I plan to buy more drives shortly)
Dual onboard NIC
Added Intel NIC (2 slots)
Nothing fancy, but it works for the moment.
However, my instincts are telling me I need to start thinking ahead.
Appreciate all the help.
Thank you!
TCG