Has anyone had experience passing through a large amount of storage through ESXi?
I am contemplating the following scenario for my upcoming build...
Supermicro x9scm
4 IBM M1015 SAS controllers (SAS2008)
24+hdds in ZFS under either opensolaris or freebsd
Is passing through the storage to a solaris/freebsd VM and NFS sharing it back to the ESXi server for the other VMs a reasonable installation?
I have a few concerns I was wondering maybe someone has real world experiance with.
- I've heard there are issues with the number of interupts I'll see by using the ESX virtual switch to route all VM hdd traffic. End result severely slowing down my machine.
- Will I be able to take advantage of AES hw acceleration through the ESXi VM layer?
- Will my HDD I/O suffer greatly by using PCI-Passthrough?
I am contemplating the following scenario for my upcoming build...
Supermicro x9scm
4 IBM M1015 SAS controllers (SAS2008)
24+hdds in ZFS under either opensolaris or freebsd
Is passing through the storage to a solaris/freebsd VM and NFS sharing it back to the ESXi server for the other VMs a reasonable installation?
I have a few concerns I was wondering maybe someone has real world experiance with.
- I've heard there are issues with the number of interupts I'll see by using the ESX virtual switch to route all VM hdd traffic. End result severely slowing down my machine.
- Will I be able to take advantage of AES hw acceleration through the ESXi VM layer?
- Will my HDD I/O suffer greatly by using PCI-Passthrough?