Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Suggestions for Freenas installation

What is the recommended way of running FreeNAS in a data center setting?



I need to build a storage server and I want to try using FreeNAS such that all the 8 drives are used for storage?



Hardware Specs:




Supermicro SS825TQ-X9SCA



Xeon E-1220V2



16GB memory



8 units 2TB SATA ES drives



I don't think the server chassis supports a compact flash card so that is ruled out.




Running from USB seems the most straightforward way but how about redundancy of the system files and configuration?



I read about running FreeNas as a VM on top of ESXi but this will mean one of the drives must be used to store the VM image making it unusable as a storage drive?



Your suggestions are most welcome.

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