CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
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I'm in the early stages of planning my next FreeNAS server build and I'm strongly leaning toward going the virtualization route (using an ASRock X470D4U with an M1015 and possibly a PCIe Intel quad port NIC passed through to the FreeNAS VM). My goal is to replace my current main "X10" server (see sig), which in turn would become my secondary backup server. The plan is that in the event that something happens to the new "X470" server, I should be able to just move the disks back to my X10 server and import the pool.
I really like the look of Proxmox (and the fact it's FOSS is important to me) vs. the admittedly more known of a quantity but non-Libre VMware ESXi. In doing my initial research on these forums, I've seen a handful of mentions of Proxmox not being ideal as it's KVM based but I'm struggling to find any examples of or details on why KVM and FreeNAS don't play nicely together. The other issue is that of the search results I found on this forum, most if not all are several years old, so may be out of date.
Would someone please provide more details on whether/why FreeNAS and KVM don't play nice, or at least point me in the right direction?
Is anyone else running FreeNAS on Proxmox? Any thought, opinions, or bits of advice you could share would be welcome.
I really like the look of Proxmox (and the fact it's FOSS is important to me) vs. the admittedly more known of a quantity but non-Libre VMware ESXi. In doing my initial research on these forums, I've seen a handful of mentions of Proxmox not being ideal as it's KVM based but I'm struggling to find any examples of or details on why KVM and FreeNAS don't play nicely together. The other issue is that of the search results I found on this forum, most if not all are several years old, so may be out of date.
Would someone please provide more details on whether/why FreeNAS and KVM don't play nice, or at least point me in the right direction?
Is anyone else running FreeNAS on Proxmox? Any thought, opinions, or bits of advice you could share would be welcome.
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