Michael T.
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- May 15, 2017
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Good evening, everyone! My name is Michael and I'm working on some infrastructure upgrades to my home-office network.
I'm new to the forum and have never set up a FreeNAS server before. I am planning on running one on my network through a 10 gigabit ethernet connection, maybe even two of them. Seems simple, right? Here's the catch: I want to run it on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6. I want to dedicate one 10GbE LAN port in my host server to the FreeNAS VM. I also don't wish to run it with vDisks--I want to use a dedicated SAS/RAID card which will also only be available to the FreeNAS VM. I am looking to be able to achieve speeds of 1 GBps (yes, one gigaBYTE per second) over the network to the FreeNAS box.
I am fairly certain that I can dedicate a NIC to a VM in VMware, but I'm not too sure about dedicating a SAS/RAID card. Can someone shed some light on this? I have never used FreeNAS or built a VMware server before.
Thanks!!
I'm new to the forum and have never set up a FreeNAS server before. I am planning on running one on my network through a 10 gigabit ethernet connection, maybe even two of them. Seems simple, right? Here's the catch: I want to run it on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6. I want to dedicate one 10GbE LAN port in my host server to the FreeNAS VM. I also don't wish to run it with vDisks--I want to use a dedicated SAS/RAID card which will also only be available to the FreeNAS VM. I am looking to be able to achieve speeds of 1 GBps (yes, one gigaBYTE per second) over the network to the FreeNAS box.
I am fairly certain that I can dedicate a NIC to a VM in VMware, but I'm not too sure about dedicating a SAS/RAID card. Can someone shed some light on this? I have never used FreeNAS or built a VMware server before.
Thanks!!