I guess it's not main question I know it will and I have articles from Patrick on this.. But I wanted to see if this will work GOOD given my scenario.
This is for small office (couple users) network share, backups.
I already have experience with FreeNAS at home, but I built hardware from scratch for this purpose.
Right now I have following:
1. S2600CP based server with 128Gb RAM and tons of resources available. Hyper-V 2012.
2. Wonderful P4000M case with 16x 2.5 drive bays. 8x of them connected to MB SATA ports via reverse breakout cables. 8x of them - ready to go. (2x 4 drive bays can be connected via SAS cables)
3. M1015(?) card sitting on my desk, can be flashed in IT mode I guess
Everything seems just perfect. I install LSI card, flash to IT mode. Create new VM. VM will be stored where other VMs stored. I will pass-through LSI card to FreeNAS VM and will have 8x nice bays to play with. Most likely it will be just a striped mirror. We don't need ton's of storage, so..
I can give FreeNAS 16Gb, 32Gb - no problem. 4 CPUs - no problem. Plenty of resources and spaces for drives. Just begs to be done like this..
Question is - will it work?? Can I pass-through card like that(never done it before)
What bothers me is that on FreeNAS forums overall feedback is like "Yeah, it will work, just make sure pass-through storage card to FreeNAS" and they always talk ESXi. And it's like "last resort scenario"
For me it seems like what I have right now will work excellent, but don't want to waste time if someone already did it and it doesn't work
This is for small office (couple users) network share, backups.
I already have experience with FreeNAS at home, but I built hardware from scratch for this purpose.
Right now I have following:
1. S2600CP based server with 128Gb RAM and tons of resources available. Hyper-V 2012.
2. Wonderful P4000M case with 16x 2.5 drive bays. 8x of them connected to MB SATA ports via reverse breakout cables. 8x of them - ready to go. (2x 4 drive bays can be connected via SAS cables)
3. M1015(?) card sitting on my desk, can be flashed in IT mode I guess
Everything seems just perfect. I install LSI card, flash to IT mode. Create new VM. VM will be stored where other VMs stored. I will pass-through LSI card to FreeNAS VM and will have 8x nice bays to play with. Most likely it will be just a striped mirror. We don't need ton's of storage, so..
I can give FreeNAS 16Gb, 32Gb - no problem. 4 CPUs - no problem. Plenty of resources and spaces for drives. Just begs to be done like this..
Question is - will it work?? Can I pass-through card like that(never done it before)
What bothers me is that on FreeNAS forums overall feedback is like "Yeah, it will work, just make sure pass-through storage card to FreeNAS" and they always talk ESXi. And it's like "last resort scenario"
For me it seems like what I have right now will work excellent, but don't want to waste time if someone already did it and it doesn't work