Hi,
I am considering downscaling my homelab to just one server.
But that would require me to virtualize my FreeNAS under ESXi and then use the FreeNAS pools via ISCSi or NFS.
Every single time I have tried it in the past - server reboots has been a pain in the butt, since ESXi is so slow/not detecting the exported pools from FreeNAS, which causes datastores in ESXi to be unavailable.
I know its possible to do, so I wonder if some of you have good experience with this and perhaps there is a ESXi trick that I need to do to make this work properly.
Basically I want my ESXi to start by booting the FreeNAS VM, when its up and running, then it should automatically detect the datastores that is based off the FreeNAS VM and the proceed to boot the remaining VM's.
So what do I need to do to make ESXi detect/connect to the datastores exported from the FreeNAS VM running on the same machine? No handholding during boots is the end goal.
I really want to get this to work, since it will make my lab shrink from 3 servers + multiple switches down to just one server and a switch
Thanks
I am considering downscaling my homelab to just one server.
But that would require me to virtualize my FreeNAS under ESXi and then use the FreeNAS pools via ISCSi or NFS.
Every single time I have tried it in the past - server reboots has been a pain in the butt, since ESXi is so slow/not detecting the exported pools from FreeNAS, which causes datastores in ESXi to be unavailable.
I know its possible to do, so I wonder if some of you have good experience with this and perhaps there is a ESXi trick that I need to do to make this work properly.
Basically I want my ESXi to start by booting the FreeNAS VM, when its up and running, then it should automatically detect the datastores that is based off the FreeNAS VM and the proceed to boot the remaining VM's.
So what do I need to do to make ESXi detect/connect to the datastores exported from the FreeNAS VM running on the same machine? No handholding during boots is the end goal.
I really want to get this to work, since it will make my lab shrink from 3 servers + multiple switches down to just one server and a switch
Thanks