I'm wondering if I am interpreting this block diagram correctly:
It looks to me like G2 shares lanes between SATA 0-7 and the two M.2 slots - two questions:
I figured that using the SlimSAS port would be a more elegant solution than individually populating the 6-8 SATA connectors:
Unfortunately this version of the motherboard doesn't have the LSI 3008 chipset but if using the SlimSAS doesn't interfere with the M.2 slots and it is easy to passthrough to Truenas from ESXi 8 then not having the LSI is moot.
Thanks, appreciated.
It looks to me like G2 shares lanes between SATA 0-7 and the two M.2 slots - two questions:
- Is this a correct interpretation?
- If using this SlimSAS port doesn't interfere with the M.2 slots (which will be populated for ESXi boot [maybe, as this is a modest homelab with a Samsung 980 or 990 Pro SSD I might just go all-in-one Boot/logs/osdata - thoughts appreciated] and OSDATA - ) am I correct in thinking that I can simply connect 8 x SATA JBODs to this SATA 0-7's SlimSAS x8 with this cable, and then pass the entire controller through to a ESXi VM running Truenas?
I figured that using the SlimSAS port would be a more elegant solution than individually populating the 6-8 SATA connectors:
Unfortunately this version of the motherboard doesn't have the LSI 3008 chipset but if using the SlimSAS doesn't interfere with the M.2 slots and it is easy to passthrough to Truenas from ESXi 8 then not having the LSI is moot.
Thanks, appreciated.
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