Take the 2x2TB Western Digital hard drives out of the Dell T110.I wouldn’t recommend virtualizing FreeNAS or any other ZFS based storage system for anything but testing or lab purposes. At any rate, it was worth a try!ĭisclaimer: If you are using ZFS and FreeNAS for production purposes or for any critical data that you care about, using a proper physical setup is important.
#FREENAS VOLUME MANAGER SET UP ZFS POOL FULL#
This isn’t as ‘pure’ as the VT-d solution, but it still gives the VM full block access to the drives in the system. Since I wanted to preserve all data on the drives, RDMs seemed to be the next logical solution. I considered using this setup, but I didn’t think it was worth the extra power consumption and cooling needed for the toasty PERC H200 card I’ve been using. This is really the best possible virtual FreeNAS configuration as it bypasses all of the hypervisor’s storage stack and grants direct access to the HBA and drives. In part 2 of my FreeNAS build series, I looked at using VT-d to passthrough a proper LSI SAS HBA to a VM. Not to mention the fact that I’ve got 224GB of RAM available there to provide for a much larger L1 ARC cache. It just didn’t feel right to have a full system up and running for just a pair of 2TB drives when I could run them just fine in my management ESXi host. This meant I had to reinstall FreeNAS and left me with just a single ZFS pool with a pair of 2TB mechanical drives. For more information on my most recent FreeNAS build, you can check out the series here.Īlthough I’ve been quite pleased with this setup, I had to repurpose the SSDs in the box and had yet another USB boot device failure. I’ve been using FreeNAS for several years now for both block and NFS storage in my home lab with great success.
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