Hi. I am updating my homelab, and I want to try out FreeNAS virutalized inside a ESX7 whitebox (Supermicro X11SCA, 64 GB RAM, 4 traditional 2 TB disk, two NVMe disks (one Samsung 970 512 GB and one 256 GB Kingston A2000).
I am used to traditional SANs (or NAS) and with these, I would have setup a RAID10 (normally with more spindles than my 4 homelab disks), but what is up on down on a virtualized SAN like this? I do not need more than 4 TB total storage.
All disks and one NVMe are set to passthrough, so I would like to dedicate these to FreeNAS and use one NVMe for cache. Would that be a good ide?
I am booting up on a USB-stick and using one of the NVMe's (the one not set to passthrough) as VM storage for the FreeNAS VM
Regards, Lars.
I am used to traditional SANs (or NAS) and with these, I would have setup a RAID10 (normally with more spindles than my 4 homelab disks), but what is up on down on a virtualized SAN like this? I do not need more than 4 TB total storage.
All disks and one NVMe are set to passthrough, so I would like to dedicate these to FreeNAS and use one NVMe for cache. Would that be a good ide?
I am booting up on a USB-stick and using one of the NVMe's (the one not set to passthrough) as VM storage for the FreeNAS VM
Regards, Lars.