Freenas 11 3 has a very rich set of features and truenas core adds incrementally and significantly to that list of features.
Freenas hardware passthrough.
The freenas vm then has direct access to the disks.
From this experience we are going to keep a running log of the best freenas hardware components.
Hardware requirements and recommendations freenas is a free and open source network attached storage nas software based on freebsd.
Totally use your freenas box as a home server running random stuff if you have the spare.
While freenas will install and boot on nearly any 64 bit x86 pc or virtual machine selecting the correct hardware is highly important to allowing freenas to do what it does best.
We are going to focus this guide on freenas servers with under 30 storage devices and will periodically update the listing.
How to passthrough sata drives directly on vmware exsi 6 5 as rdms.
At sth we test hundreds of hardware combinations each year.
I disagree with u elforesto but i bought unnecessarily beefy hardware for my nas it s running a quad core i3 in hindsight i wish i d gotten something fanless.
My needs are simple.
To use pci passthrough you need to use a host bus adapter hba supported by freenas we recommend lsi controllers of the 2008 chipset variety which are 6gb s and well supported in freenas as a pci passthrough device that is connected directly to your freenas vm.
There aren t many tutorials about this the only tutorials i ve found were about passing through entire pcie cards to vms or refered to old esxi versions below 6 5 that used a more comprehensive desktop client instead of the web app.
I only have smb and ssh server running on my instance.
I ve searched the net and the only thing i can find is the ease of use of freenas because of its web gui.
And i do not believe virtualbox supports pci passthrough it does support usb passthrough.
I am comfortable using the terminal.