Hi my name is Rein, and I've been a lurker for awhile. Wanted to finally post and introduce myself. I'm a network/server admin at a large bank and I loved FreeNAS so much at home I pushed to have it setup in the office.
Currently at home I'm using:
HP DL180G6 2x intel xeon l5520, 48GB RAM, IBM m1015 in HBA Mode, 6x2TB Assorted drives in RAIDZ2.
The server runs xenserver hypervisor. I have the disks running in passthrough via this method, and xenserver tools running via an image a fellow forum member created. To make sure the passthrough is working correctly, I loaded freenas onto a USB drive and booted straight to it. It's able to correctly see the drives and data whether FN is loaded virtually or physically. I have 16GB assigned to the FN VM. I have a couple jails running (plex, owncloud, etc) and they are all working great!
This replicates to a N40L microserver with 4x3TB reds in raidz1 with 8GB of ram.
This way I figure even if the Virtual setup takes a dump, I'll still have my data available.
At work we have:
two HP DL 180G6's each with 24GB of ram, 2x l5520 CPU's, and 10 2TB drives in RAIDZ2 with an LSI HBA. The primary one stores backups, and replicates them offsite to the secondary DL 180. No Virtualization going on with these
What do you guys think? any recommendations/things I missed/things I should know?
Thanks!
Currently at home I'm using:
HP DL180G6 2x intel xeon l5520, 48GB RAM, IBM m1015 in HBA Mode, 6x2TB Assorted drives in RAIDZ2.
The server runs xenserver hypervisor. I have the disks running in passthrough via this method, and xenserver tools running via an image a fellow forum member created. To make sure the passthrough is working correctly, I loaded freenas onto a USB drive and booted straight to it. It's able to correctly see the drives and data whether FN is loaded virtually or physically. I have 16GB assigned to the FN VM. I have a couple jails running (plex, owncloud, etc) and they are all working great!
This replicates to a N40L microserver with 4x3TB reds in raidz1 with 8GB of ram.
This way I figure even if the Virtual setup takes a dump, I'll still have my data available.
At work we have:
two HP DL 180G6's each with 24GB of ram, 2x l5520 CPU's, and 10 2TB drives in RAIDZ2 with an LSI HBA. The primary one stores backups, and replicates them offsite to the secondary DL 180. No Virtualization going on with these
What do you guys think? any recommendations/things I missed/things I should know?
Thanks!