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#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD INSTALL#
#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD DRIVERS#
#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD PRO#

#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD PRO#

Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 4 x Intel GbEĮSXi boot and datastores: 100GB Intel DC S3700 + 512GB Samsung 970 PRO M. Virtualized on VMware ESXi v6.7 with 4 vCPUs and 128GB RAMīoard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ with dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 256GB RAMĬase: Supermicro CSE-846BA-R920B 4U 24-bay with BPN-SAS-846A backplane The next step is installing the ESXi using the previosly created device. Not as beauty like a dual hot-swap hard disks solution, but reasonable for the use cases (build HCI clusters). Pool: Mirror (2 x 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 (0F30141) Note that, like the dual redundant SD card, the BOSS card does need that you power-off the host in order to replace a device. Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 2 x Intel GbE NICsĮSXi boot and datastores: 100GB Intel DC S3500 SSD + 512GB Samsung SM961 M.2 NVMe SSD Virtualized on VMware ESXi v6.7 with 2 vCPUs and 32GB RAMīoard: Supermicro X11SSM-F with Intel Xeon E3-1280 v6 64GB RAMĬase: Supermicro 835TQ-R800B 3U 8-bay with CSE-SAS-833TQ backplane Pool 2: Stripe (2 x 14TB HGST/WDC Ultrastar DC HC530 WUH721414AL4204, alternating between fireproof safe and BACON) Pool 1: 2 x 5-disk RAIDZ2 vdevs using 4TB HGST UltraStar 7K6 SAS3 4kn drives Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 2 x Intel GbE This should give me a VM FreeNAS with ‘direct’ access to the drives to create ZFS pools/volumes, and then 3-4 VM’s to run (Apple Server, Windows Server, XPEnology and Ubuntu).īoard: Supermicro X10SRL-F with Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 3.2GHz, 128GB RAMĬase: Supermicro SC826BE1C-R920LPB 3U 12-bay with BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane

I will then make the FreeNAS Storage available via Shares for Data etc to the VM’s.

#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD INSTALL#

Install and create the other VMs onto the SSD.Hot-plugging devices on the Thunderbolt bus reliably PSODs the server, but otherwise, Ive been using in my home lab for over a month without incident.

#ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD DRIVERS#

Create a FreeNAS VM onto the SSD Card (attached to the H410 Controller) and passthrough the 4x3TB drivers (B120 controller). The Areca-supplied SAS RAID driver (arcmsr) recognizes the ARC-8050T2 Thunderbolt 2 RAID connected to my Macmini6,2 running ESXi 5.5 U2.

Turn of the B120i Raid controller and enable ACHI Mode for the 4x3TB drives.

ESXi 6.5 installed to the internal USB drive.

I then want to run 4 other VMs and use the FreeNas storage for data stores but not the VM itself.

What I want to do is run FreeNas as a VM and passthrough the 4x3TB drives to this VM as cleanly as possible.

HP P410 RAID Controller installed into the PICE slot.

4x3TB WD Drivers attached to the onboard RAID controller (B120i).

After a lot of reading and investigation I wanted to test a scenario wth you to see whether my proposed 'build' would/should work.