Hi,
I have been running Freenas for a few weeks and have been enjoying it. I am constantly amazed at how well it runs & how stable the system is (primarily I am a windows user).
Playing with Virtualbox is also very cool & I think i can get rid of about 4 other boxes that run 24/7 in favor of it. Then I started reading about ESXI & started playing with that also.
I have a camera server which I would love to virtualize but it has a PCI express card & thats where ESXI might be the ticket (might not also).
I put a 2tb drive into the ESXI box for testing & have a few VM's running in it. I am not entirely sure how different PHPVirtualbox is from ESXI (for my purposes so far - pass through would be different).
So, the point of this post is that I see a VMWare snapshot section within storage. So it seems that Freenas/VMware work together somehow. It looks primarily that the ESXI datastore would be hosted on Freenas & then the Esxi server connects over Iscsi? Is that the main way it is being used?
Server 1: Esxi with USB drive (any other storage used typically?)
Server 2: Freenas setup with ISCSI
Server 3: Backup?
I am a little confused on how everything works together - am i close?
Thanks,
Rich
I have been running Freenas for a few weeks and have been enjoying it. I am constantly amazed at how well it runs & how stable the system is (primarily I am a windows user).
Playing with Virtualbox is also very cool & I think i can get rid of about 4 other boxes that run 24/7 in favor of it. Then I started reading about ESXI & started playing with that also.
I have a camera server which I would love to virtualize but it has a PCI express card & thats where ESXI might be the ticket (might not also).
I put a 2tb drive into the ESXI box for testing & have a few VM's running in it. I am not entirely sure how different PHPVirtualbox is from ESXI (for my purposes so far - pass through would be different).
So, the point of this post is that I see a VMWare snapshot section within storage. So it seems that Freenas/VMware work together somehow. It looks primarily that the ESXI datastore would be hosted on Freenas & then the Esxi server connects over Iscsi? Is that the main way it is being used?
Server 1: Esxi with USB drive (any other storage used typically?)
Server 2: Freenas setup with ISCSI
Server 3: Backup?
I am a little confused on how everything works together - am i close?
Thanks,
Rich