Hi,
I am converting an R510 12 bay into storage for my environment, below is my plan of attack and was wondering if anyone could verify or tell me why it won't work?
1) Install ESXi ont a usb device using an internal header
2) Passthrough another USB stick and create a datastore to put the FreeNAS VM onto (if I cannot utilise one of the sata ports due to have lack of sata power)
3) Passthrough the HBA to the FreeNAS VM, configuring the VM with adequate h/w and 'best practices'
4) Install FreeNAS, configure pools and present the iSCSI storage and NFS pools, VM will have 1 vmnic to start with
5) Configure the localhost to see the datastore and install vCenter on onto it.
7) Create a vDS and create a port group for the iSCSI vmnic, prior to this create a second vmnic on the VM for the second iSCSI port, when adding the host to the vDS bind each iSCSI port to it's own physical nic
8) use a 3rd nic for the NFS volume and do the same
9) configure other esx hosts for mpio
Does this seem like it will work or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks
I am converting an R510 12 bay into storage for my environment, below is my plan of attack and was wondering if anyone could verify or tell me why it won't work?
1) Install ESXi ont a usb device using an internal header
2) Passthrough another USB stick and create a datastore to put the FreeNAS VM onto (if I cannot utilise one of the sata ports due to have lack of sata power)
3) Passthrough the HBA to the FreeNAS VM, configuring the VM with adequate h/w and 'best practices'
4) Install FreeNAS, configure pools and present the iSCSI storage and NFS pools, VM will have 1 vmnic to start with
5) Configure the localhost to see the datastore and install vCenter on onto it.
7) Create a vDS and create a port group for the iSCSI vmnic, prior to this create a second vmnic on the VM for the second iSCSI port, when adding the host to the vDS bind each iSCSI port to it's own physical nic
8) use a 3rd nic for the NFS volume and do the same
9) configure other esx hosts for mpio
Does this seem like it will work or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks