Hi, my first post here after discovering this useful forum!
I have at home a PC running ESXi 6.7.0, let's call it my "homelab server". It is nothing special, it has an AMD FX-8350, 32GB RAM DDR3, a 512GB SSD for the ESXI and some VM's (Server Core 2016 and a couple of W10 VM's).
I'd like to run FreeNAS on my server and attach a 4TB WD Red Pro disk and use it to serve some files to my VM's and physical PC's (a couple of shared folders). Nothing very load-intensive, just to get familiar with FreeNAS.
My question: Can I passthrough the 4TB WD Red disk to the FreeNAS VM? Frequent backups of the data will be done, because, you know, it's good practice. But I'd like to know from your experience if it's ok to do what I'm planning to try or should I take anoter approach.
Let me know if useful details are missing.
I have at home a PC running ESXi 6.7.0, let's call it my "homelab server". It is nothing special, it has an AMD FX-8350, 32GB RAM DDR3, a 512GB SSD for the ESXI and some VM's (Server Core 2016 and a couple of W10 VM's).
I'd like to run FreeNAS on my server and attach a 4TB WD Red Pro disk and use it to serve some files to my VM's and physical PC's (a couple of shared folders). Nothing very load-intensive, just to get familiar with FreeNAS.
My question: Can I passthrough the 4TB WD Red disk to the FreeNAS VM? Frequent backups of the data will be done, because, you know, it's good practice. But I'd like to know from your experience if it's ok to do what I'm planning to try or should I take anoter approach.
Let me know if useful details are missing.