JimPhreak
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I'm in the process of parting out a new FreeNAS box that I want to use as the main storage device on my home network. The bulk of the storage will be media storage that will need to be made available to many local and remote devices (Rokus, TV's, PS3s, Phones, Tablets, etc) through a Media Server virtual machine that will be running on another server. I will also have another torrent VM that will need to read and write to the same location where all my media is stored. Therefore both VM's will need read access and at least 1 of them (torrent VM) will need write access.
I also want to store VM's on it for testing live migration/high availability with Hyper-V/ESXi. And lastly I would like to do backups for the local computers on my network.
Here's where I'm a little confused as to how best to configure my FreeNAS box once it's up and running. Can I combine the functionality of a NAS (filesystem sharing) and a SAN (block level storage, ie. iSCSI connections to VMs) from this one box? If so I assume I'd have to set up separate VDev's for my different purposes (media storage and sharing, VM storage, backups, etc.).
I also want to store VM's on it for testing live migration/high availability with Hyper-V/ESXi. And lastly I would like to do backups for the local computers on my network.
Here's where I'm a little confused as to how best to configure my FreeNAS box once it's up and running. Can I combine the functionality of a NAS (filesystem sharing) and a SAN (block level storage, ie. iSCSI connections to VMs) from this one box? If so I assume I'd have to set up separate VDev's for my different purposes (media storage and sharing, VM storage, backups, etc.).