And it does not make much sense to send the data to a switch only to send it back to the same server. Your speed would be limited by the speed of your NICs and switch. This would work pretty much out of the box, when you set up your VMs.īut it would not really make much sense in this case. Now if you want to transfer data von VM-A to VM-B you could theoretical go over the physical network port of VM-A, to a Physical switch, and then return the data to the same Server over the physical network port of VM-B. and lets say your system got 2+ NICs, so they even got their own network port. Lets say you got 2 VMs, VM-A and VM-B each got their own storage etc. Sorry, if I got that wrong, but that's what i came up with.Ĭan you break down a virtual switch for me? How does one do that? I was originally planning on setting up VM's like they were independent machines with hardware dedicated to them.Ī vSwitch would work without any hardware.
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And in the future, you are going to build another system, add WD RE drives connected to a LSI 9300 and add the old HBA&Drives into this new system?Īnd you want to use a FreeNas VM that got the old HBA passed through to transfer the Data from the Blacks to the RE? If I understand you right, you got a FreeNas system running, with WD Blacks on a LSI 9266-8i. Reading your post again, I'm honestly not really sure what you are trying to do, and why? But as i said in my previous post, i do not know if PCI-Passthrough works on it yet. Microsoft got their own product, Hyper-V. VMware is just one company that offers solutions like this. Hypervisor a typically headless systems -> they do not always have a monitor/keyboard etc connected but instead are controlled remotely over a LAN connection. if you want to sit in front of the server and use it as a kind of workstation.
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You would install ESXi first, then create a VM and install Windows Server on it.ĭepending on how you want to use your Server, this might not work out. VMware ESXi is a hypervisor to control VMs running on it. I'd like to use it long term if possible. Has anyone had any experience with this, and is it stable if so? What is the transfer speed performance of this scenario vs loading it directly with say a 10GbE environment. I'd like to try virtual box to create a VM for freenas and direct io pass through with the HBA. I am adding a LSI 9300 HBA to the system. I'm building a minimum 14 core (expandable to 28 core) system with a norco 16bay 3u hotswap case. My goal is to transfer data, get proper WD RE drives in the RAID array to hopefully fix the issue. At first I wanted to test the function of freenas, but now I'm having to rely on it as a backup due to my LSI 9266 8i card acting up with WD black drives.
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I want to use a VM to run a freenas system in a home production environment. The reason for this thread is to Get some experienced feedback. That being said, I also want to learn more about server management and the capabilities of a domain controller. Mostly bc I want the flexibility of the windows environment that I'm comfortable using. I'm building a new server to utilize windows server 2012 r2 for many reasons.