thisman105
Dabbler
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2015
- Messages
- 31
I know I'm not supposed to virtualize FreeNAS, but I'm going to do it anyway, not mission critical stuff here and there's an offsite backup anyway.
I will have up to 8 drives in the server and my question is: since I will only have 3-4 drives on the FreeNAS VM, is there any reason why I would passthrough the LSI controller instead the Intel SATA ports?
Other questions is that if I should use the LSI controller for FreeNAS (IT firmware), how much CPU overhead will there be from ZFS if I run my 3x 15k SAS drives in RAIDZ1 and an SSD with no mirroring and use them to provide iSCSI to my other VMs?
Thanks for the help.
Hardware:
OS: ESXI 6.5 (or another version?)
Motherboard: Super Micro MBD-X10SL7-F 6 Intel SATA ports and 8 through the onboard LSI2038.
CPU: e3-1231v3
32GB ECC memory (currently at about 24 hours of MemTest)
Chassis: Chenbro SR20969-CO w/hot swap
iStarUSA 3.5.25-4*3.5 hot swap bay
Some PSU that works with this picky A$$ board.
I will have up to 8 drives in the server and my question is: since I will only have 3-4 drives on the FreeNAS VM, is there any reason why I would passthrough the LSI controller instead the Intel SATA ports?
Other questions is that if I should use the LSI controller for FreeNAS (IT firmware), how much CPU overhead will there be from ZFS if I run my 3x 15k SAS drives in RAIDZ1 and an SSD with no mirroring and use them to provide iSCSI to my other VMs?
Thanks for the help.
Hardware:
OS: ESXI 6.5 (or another version?)
Motherboard: Super Micro MBD-X10SL7-F 6 Intel SATA ports and 8 through the onboard LSI2038.
CPU: e3-1231v3
32GB ECC memory (currently at about 24 hours of MemTest)
Chassis: Chenbro SR20969-CO w/hot swap
iStarUSA 3.5.25-4*3.5 hot swap bay
Some PSU that works with this picky A$$ board.