I could use a bit of defuddling, or is it unbefuddling?
I've got a fair bit of Pfsense configured and have started looking at NAS and Virtualization Platforms. I looked at FreeNAS and said to myself.... ZFS and various file serving plugins... looks good. Then I looked at Proxmox and said to myself ZFS and various file serving plugins ... looks good. I go back and look at Pfsense and it wants to provide all sorts of server functions as well.
I think I've got my sense of a firewall/router sorted in that I have it on its own hardware and I have decided that It is a firewall and any server software that I am going to run is NOT going to be on a firewall no matter how many cool features are available.
Now Hypervisor/FileSystem leaves me a little more confused. ZFS takes a boatload of RAM so if I go 24x4TB of disk on an SC846 then that is 81GB of RAM. If I load up 128GB's of RAM that leaves room for a bunch of file server containers.
Which brings me to the question... Does it make any sense to install FreeNAS as a VM on proxmox and pass through the disks to the VM? Or should I even be thinking of FreeNAS if I install and configure proxmox with zfs?
I've got a fair bit of Pfsense configured and have started looking at NAS and Virtualization Platforms. I looked at FreeNAS and said to myself.... ZFS and various file serving plugins... looks good. Then I looked at Proxmox and said to myself ZFS and various file serving plugins ... looks good. I go back and look at Pfsense and it wants to provide all sorts of server functions as well.
I think I've got my sense of a firewall/router sorted in that I have it on its own hardware and I have decided that It is a firewall and any server software that I am going to run is NOT going to be on a firewall no matter how many cool features are available.
Now Hypervisor/FileSystem leaves me a little more confused. ZFS takes a boatload of RAM so if I go 24x4TB of disk on an SC846 then that is 81GB of RAM. If I load up 128GB's of RAM that leaves room for a bunch of file server containers.
Which brings me to the question... Does it make any sense to install FreeNAS as a VM on proxmox and pass through the disks to the VM? Or should I even be thinking of FreeNAS if I install and configure proxmox with zfs?