tiro_uspsss
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Hello all!
I have a couple of questions I would like to ask prior to possibly moving to FreeNAS (from Windows Server 2012 R2). This is my personal file server, not production/company.
1) can FreeNAS run VMs? IE, FreeNAS is the host OS - not FreeNAS in a VM ;) but instead VMs in FreeNAS - possible?
2) Is there a plugin / feature that allows running a website (or multiple websites)? What about an email server function?
3) Is the following hardware spec suitable for running FreeNAS - storage will only be configured in either stand-alone HDDs or mirrored ('RAID1') - no RAIDZn:
2x Intel Xeon E5620
6x 4GB ECC+REG DDR3 (may upgrade to 12x 4GB ECC+REG DDR3)
M1015 (@IT) + Chenbro CK23601
SuperMicro X8DTE
Mellanox Connect-X2 (10GbE NIC - will only be directly connected to one other PC)
The total number of HDDs is around 15 & total raw storage is ~30TB.
I have a couple of questions I would like to ask prior to possibly moving to FreeNAS (from Windows Server 2012 R2). This is my personal file server, not production/company.
1) can FreeNAS run VMs? IE, FreeNAS is the host OS - not FreeNAS in a VM ;) but instead VMs in FreeNAS - possible?
2) Is there a plugin / feature that allows running a website (or multiple websites)? What about an email server function?
3) Is the following hardware spec suitable for running FreeNAS - storage will only be configured in either stand-alone HDDs or mirrored ('RAID1') - no RAIDZn:
2x Intel Xeon E5620
6x 4GB ECC+REG DDR3 (may upgrade to 12x 4GB ECC+REG DDR3)
M1015 (@IT) + Chenbro CK23601
SuperMicro X8DTE
Mellanox Connect-X2 (10GbE NIC - will only be directly connected to one other PC)
The total number of HDDs is around 15 & total raw storage is ~30TB.