Hi,
I have a Supermicro 11SDV-4C-TP8F motherboard and I run ESXi on it, having FreeNAS as a VM. I am considering buying a server rack mount for this board with 12 hot-swappable disks - 2U 2412 - Inter-Tech GmbH, and I am a bit unsure of one thing:
The motherboard has 2 MiniSAS HD connectors, plus 4 SATA connectors. On ESXi, I see only two SAS controllers. Does it mean that each controller is responsible for 6 ports, like 4 from each MiniSAS HD port, and 2 SATA ports?
I currently use one of the MiniSAS HD connectors to connect HDD drives to my FreeNAS, and I passthrough one controller to FreeNAS, and it works fine this way.
However, I am not sure if I will be able to passthrough all the 12 HDD drives - it would be nice to identify which of the connectors is managed by each of my SAS controllers.
Any hints here?
Best,
Francis
I have a Supermicro 11SDV-4C-TP8F motherboard and I run ESXi on it, having FreeNAS as a VM. I am considering buying a server rack mount for this board with 12 hot-swappable disks - 2U 2412 - Inter-Tech GmbH, and I am a bit unsure of one thing:
The motherboard has 2 MiniSAS HD connectors, plus 4 SATA connectors. On ESXi, I see only two SAS controllers. Does it mean that each controller is responsible for 6 ports, like 4 from each MiniSAS HD port, and 2 SATA ports?
I currently use one of the MiniSAS HD connectors to connect HDD drives to my FreeNAS, and I passthrough one controller to FreeNAS, and it works fine this way.
However, I am not sure if I will be able to passthrough all the 12 HDD drives - it would be nice to identify which of the connectors is managed by each of my SAS controllers.
Any hints here?
Best,
Francis