convert FreeNAS box into ESXi box?

[trizc]

I currently have a mATX AM3 with Athlon II 250 and 8gb doing my FreeNAS setup

I have an assortment of different harddrives running in there.. and have had no problems. A bunch are on different PCI controllers and such.
4 2TB
3x2TB 5400rpm f4 samsung
1x2TB black western digital (from enclosure)

4 1TB
2 Seagate 7200rpm
1 WD Green 1TB
1 Seagate 2.5in 1TB (from enclosure)

running in raidz1

I have a 1x pcie sata card and a pci sata card (generic cheap ones)

My plan was to upgrade to FM2
a6 6400k and gigabyte GA-F2A55M-HD2 (microcenter deal for 105 + tax)
the manual for the gigabyte seems to have iommu listed.

do you think since i have a pretty hacked up setup, that i could run into problems virtualizing freeNAS, my plan is to passthrough the sata cards, can you also passthrough harddrives that are connected on the internal sata?

I want to switch to ESXi because i know nothing of FreeBSD and I do want to run some other things on the same box. Also, i keep this computer at my family's home so I think having ESXi running would make it easy for me to remote and and upgrade ESXi and/or easily restore if I screw something up.

 

[danswartz]

You can pass drives thru individually using RDM.

 

[iroc409]

What other things do you want to run on the box?

 

[trizc]

i want to run something of the likes of owncloud to manage all the files. torrent sabnzbd (i know freenas has plugins, but such a pain with jails and user rights)

Possibly Plex which might require passthrough of the GPU on the CPU?

 

[ptitsnake]

Hello, I try to mount my own ESXi build in order to run a plex media server.

So I'd like to know if you successfully to ride this card with GPU passthrough and ESXi.
Whether that type of graphics card do you use? And integrated card is handled in the GPU passthrough?

Thank you in advance for your help,