Metalstorm
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- Mar 13, 2014
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Ok so i've been running a install (USB) of FN 8.2.* for a while on bare metal.
My setup consisted of 2 x 2tb drives RAID 1 (SWR inside FN) as a UFS volume.
How I just got a HP microserver N54L, stuck ESXi 5.1 on it and FN (9.2.1.2) as a VM, now at this point you are probably thinking "oh, here we go again" specially after reading posts like:
http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/
:)
So from what I can see i can't do true pass through of the on board controller to ESXi as the server doesn't have VT-d, am I right?
But I can (and tried) RDM'ing the one of the disks as passthrough (vmkfstools -z), yet when I go to FN I can see the disks but they have no size and they don't appear in the volume manager :( ... unless it never made a RAID 1 and all my superblock/data is on the other disk O.O!!!
I'm trying to follow all the points in: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...ide-to-not-completely-losing-your-data.12714/
Its just the passthrough im stuck on i think.
Some further questions/notes are:
- This FN will be used mainly for a small file server, serving movies and some personal files. Absolute max users will be 3, but for the most part it will just be me. I'll stick and old SSD I have in the ESXi host and have added a NIC to get (can't remember the name) ..them both working together (~2Gb/s)
Other stuff will be a very small teamspeak server and plex server.
- I'm guessing once i have the old UFS imported i should convert it to ZFS, is this easy to do?
- ZFS requires a decent amount of ram, and i think ive seen stuff saying that for every TB of HDD you need 2GB of ram, is the physical HDD or the raid/volume size? So if I have a RAID 1 of 2 x 2tb I eed 4GB of ram?
- I want FN in a VM because I will have further VM doing other stuff :)
My setup consisted of 2 x 2tb drives RAID 1 (SWR inside FN) as a UFS volume.
How I just got a HP microserver N54L, stuck ESXi 5.1 on it and FN (9.2.1.2) as a VM, now at this point you are probably thinking "oh, here we go again" specially after reading posts like:
http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/
:)
So from what I can see i can't do true pass through of the on board controller to ESXi as the server doesn't have VT-d, am I right?
But I can (and tried) RDM'ing the one of the disks as passthrough (vmkfstools -z), yet when I go to FN I can see the disks but they have no size and they don't appear in the volume manager :( ... unless it never made a RAID 1 and all my superblock/data is on the other disk O.O!!!
I'm trying to follow all the points in: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...ide-to-not-completely-losing-your-data.12714/
Its just the passthrough im stuck on i think.
Some further questions/notes are:
- This FN will be used mainly for a small file server, serving movies and some personal files. Absolute max users will be 3, but for the most part it will just be me. I'll stick and old SSD I have in the ESXi host and have added a NIC to get (can't remember the name) ..them both working together (~2Gb/s)
Other stuff will be a very small teamspeak server and plex server.
- I'm guessing once i have the old UFS imported i should convert it to ZFS, is this easy to do?
- ZFS requires a decent amount of ram, and i think ive seen stuff saying that for every TB of HDD you need 2GB of ram, is the physical HDD or the raid/volume size? So if I have a RAID 1 of 2 x 2tb I eed 4GB of ram?
- I want FN in a VM because I will have further VM doing other stuff :)