mattlach
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Hey all,
The box I will be running FreeNAS on is a VMWare ESXi server.
FreeNAS will be a guest with the storage controller forwarded to it for direct native access to the drives.
I have read about putting the ZIL on SSD's to speed up the array, and was curious about experimenting with it.
Question is, can I do with with virtual drives?
The ESXi server that will be hosting FreeNAS already has two SSD's in it. One it just boots off of, and one it uses as a datastore for other guests.
If I were to create a small 10 GB virtual drive file on each SSD and present them to my FreeNAS guest, could I mirror them (for security from loss) and use them for my ZIL in FreeNAS, or does ZFS require native access to the drives for this?
Much obliged,
Matt
The box I will be running FreeNAS on is a VMWare ESXi server.
FreeNAS will be a guest with the storage controller forwarded to it for direct native access to the drives.
I have read about putting the ZIL on SSD's to speed up the array, and was curious about experimenting with it.
Question is, can I do with with virtual drives?
The ESXi server that will be hosting FreeNAS already has two SSD's in it. One it just boots off of, and one it uses as a datastore for other guests.
If I were to create a small 10 GB virtual drive file on each SSD and present them to my FreeNAS guest, could I mirror them (for security from loss) and use them for my ZIL in FreeNAS, or does ZFS require native access to the drives for this?
Much obliged,
Matt