xCatalystx
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So currently I have my primary freenas box replicating to a old pc in the corner chewing up a fair amount of power. The disks are connected to a LSI card acting as HBA.
The plan is to migrate them to my esxi host:
So what i need to know is after installing freenas:
a) do i rebuild the config from scratch inc (import the pool, setup tasks, etc)
b) do i just import the config and off to the races.
All this VM will do is store a replica of my datasets (w/ snapshots) of my mainbox. This would save me running a additional 110w~ so it seems well worth it. The alternative is for me to build a lower power unit but I would prefer to have 1 less thing running.
The plan is to migrate them to my esxi host:
- Take the disks and card out of existing box.
- Place them in my ESXI host
- Create a New Virtual Machine with 16gb storage for OS on existing local datastore
- Assign 2 vCPU and 8gb memory (ECC)
- Assign the LSI card in pass-through.
So what i need to know is after installing freenas:
a) do i rebuild the config from scratch inc (import the pool, setup tasks, etc)
b) do i just import the config and off to the races.
All this VM will do is store a replica of my datasets (w/ snapshots) of my mainbox. This would save me running a additional 110w~ so it seems well worth it. The alternative is for me to build a lower power unit but I would prefer to have 1 less thing running.