francisaugusto
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Hi,
I've decided to move my FreeNAS setup to a SuperMicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F.
My goal is:
- Boot from ESXi via an M.2 SSD or SATA DOM, perhaps even having most VM's stored here as well;
- Passthrough the SATA disks from the on-board connectors to FreeNAS
- Passthrough other disks to additional VM's for storage.
Since I will (hopefully) passthrough the SATA controller to the FreeNAS board, is adding a HBA to one of the PCI slots my only hope to provide additional storage to the other VM's (besides using the FreeNAS as storage)?
It's a bit of a pity because this board has two other connectors (called I-SATA0-3 and I-SATA4-7) that can be used for additional SATA ports or two NVMe U.2 ports, but I imagine that since I will use passthrough so that FreeNAS can use the controller, I won't be able to use these ports on a different VM, right?
I need one HDD (or SSD) as storage for the other VM's. What could I do?
- Would I be able to use the M.2 connectors to add other HDD's that won't be assigned to FreeNAS when I set up passthrough of the SATA controller? If so, can I get SATA ports via some sort of adapter?
- Is adding a HBA to one of the PCIe slots my only hope to get other SATA ports?
I'd be happy if I could get any tips on this setup. I would rather get the TLN2F variant, but because I want to have the possibility of passing through more hard disks to different VM's other than the FreeNAS one, I guess the TP8F is my only hope, unless I use the FreeNAS as storage for the other VM's, which I guess would be ok anyway.
I've decided to move my FreeNAS setup to a SuperMicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F.
My goal is:
- Boot from ESXi via an M.2 SSD or SATA DOM, perhaps even having most VM's stored here as well;
- Passthrough the SATA disks from the on-board connectors to FreeNAS
- Passthrough other disks to additional VM's for storage.
Since I will (hopefully) passthrough the SATA controller to the FreeNAS board, is adding a HBA to one of the PCI slots my only hope to provide additional storage to the other VM's (besides using the FreeNAS as storage)?
It's a bit of a pity because this board has two other connectors (called I-SATA0-3 and I-SATA4-7) that can be used for additional SATA ports or two NVMe U.2 ports, but I imagine that since I will use passthrough so that FreeNAS can use the controller, I won't be able to use these ports on a different VM, right?
I need one HDD (or SSD) as storage for the other VM's. What could I do?
- Would I be able to use the M.2 connectors to add other HDD's that won't be assigned to FreeNAS when I set up passthrough of the SATA controller? If so, can I get SATA ports via some sort of adapter?
- Is adding a HBA to one of the PCIe slots my only hope to get other SATA ports?
I'd be happy if I could get any tips on this setup. I would rather get the TLN2F variant, but because I want to have the possibility of passing through more hard disks to different VM's other than the FreeNAS one, I guess the TP8F is my only hope, unless I use the FreeNAS as storage for the other VM's, which I guess would be ok anyway.