SpiritFly
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I know it's way too early for a thread like this, as FreeNAS 11 is still in its early stages of utilizing its virtualization abilities, but I'm sure you can already see its potential and can make a comparison based on that.
So I'm currently in the process of choosing a virtualization platform for my new server. I would be using mostly windows VMs and a few Linuxes. May spin up a pfSense as well.
How do you think FreeNAS 11's virtualization compares to the already popular solutions and how much do you expect it to improve as 11.1,11.2 come up? In what aspects can it improve and what would be the advantages of using FreeNAS to virtualize?
And most importantly, how do you think it will compare in terms of performance?
For example how would the performance of vSphere virtual machines on a server with hardware RAID controller and 2 SATA in RAID0 compare to the same server running VMs under FreeNAS 11 with the same two SATA drives in ZFS Stripe (without using the hardware raid of course)?
I'd really like to do some tests myself now that I have a spare server to play with, but I'd like to hear the community's opinion as well.
So I'm currently in the process of choosing a virtualization platform for my new server. I would be using mostly windows VMs and a few Linuxes. May spin up a pfSense as well.
How do you think FreeNAS 11's virtualization compares to the already popular solutions and how much do you expect it to improve as 11.1,11.2 come up? In what aspects can it improve and what would be the advantages of using FreeNAS to virtualize?
And most importantly, how do you think it will compare in terms of performance?
For example how would the performance of vSphere virtual machines on a server with hardware RAID controller and 2 SATA in RAID0 compare to the same server running VMs under FreeNAS 11 with the same two SATA drives in ZFS Stripe (without using the hardware raid of course)?
I'd really like to do some tests myself now that I have a spare server to play with, but I'd like to hear the community's opinion as well.
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