Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to move my ESXI VM's to FreeNAS VM's? (Not Jails, not Docker, but FreeNAS VM) I have a server with ESXI 6.5 and a NAS running FreeNAS 11.1-U6. I want to go back to 1 physical machine. (FreeNAS for storage and the VM's) Some of the ESXI VM's are...

Hi, Hoping some of you guys might be able to validate my intended deployment of a virtual FreeNAS box/Plex server for home use. My intention is to have a one box does all kind of approach, with ESXi running on bare metal, hosting several VMs; FreeNAS for ESXi/SMB storage pFsense router Domain...

FreeNAS 11.0U4, system uptime 60 days, 3x300GB SAS 10k disks in a RAID-Z1 configuration + 240GB SAS SSD L2ARC. I have this dedicated to providing a NFS3 share to VMWare to run a variety of VMs. Early this morning one of the drives reported an increase in bad sectors and the performance dropped...

Hey there! Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. I just trust these forums much more than others especially since core purpose of this system is FN (even though as VM). I put together a system for a friend to run ESXi 6.5 and run FN and pfSense as VMs. Well, that failed because the...

Hi, been a user of FreeNAS for a few years now. I run it in a VM for file storage only. I love it, however, I'm noticing it's getting more and more features added I have no intention of using. My guess is that there are likely others like me. Stuff like docker, bhyve, etc. I don't mind the...

Hello, Has anyone faced a device list in esxi 6.5 where all devices are "not capable" for passthrough? I have a fresh install of esxi and this is the case for me. The virtualization setting in the MB bios is set to enabled. I can see all the devices including drives and LSI 9211 adapter which...

I have FreeNAS (11.0-STABLE) running as a VM on an ESXi 6.5 host. When changing the assigned USB controller for the VM from 2.0 to 3.0, upsmon is no longer able to connect to the attached UPS (APC Back-UPS XS 1500G): Nov 27 20:50:43 freenas ugen0.4: <American Power Conversion Back-UPS XS 1500G...

TLDR version: I want to run FreeNAS as a VM on ESXi with drive passthrough, but am having difficulties; How robust is the new VM support in FreeNAS 11, and would it work to run FreeNAS as a VM host for Windows and Linux machines? Long version: So.... Over the summer I had a big beautiful...

Hi all I want to make sure that I have iSCSI setup correctly with multipath between my FreeNAS and 2 ESXi servers. First the FreeNAS server: The FreeNAS server has a dual port 10GbE card each port is on a different subnet/VLAN, the iSCSI portal is linked to both 10GbE ports, there is one iSCSI...

I have a stable Esxi 6.5 host running with a small SSD boot drive and a 1TB Samsung 960 Evo for the datastore, running half dozen windows VM's for a home lab. The VM's currently all use virtual NVME controllers to talk the their VHD's on the datastore. I have a large amount of ECC RAM...

I've progressed through the article on b3n.org about setting up FreeNAS as a VM. Ive given it 2 dedicated cores and 16 GB of dedicated RAM. I followed all the recommendations as best I could. I have the following setup: supermicro x10 srh-clnf4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 (12 core w...