ESXi Home server Checkup

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Hi there everyone!

Discovered ESXi last week, so basically been thinking about it every evening.. :confused:
I put together a list of parts that I would like to order, but I do want a final checkup from you guys before spending any money on it. ;)

Parts list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AocgA8O26ORNdEowY29oZWV2Q19FRkxxRjV0Y1RXcmc&usp=sharing

The idea:
- ESXi is loaded from a small thumb drive into memory.
- FreeNAS is loaded into memory from a local hard disk, connected to a cheap HBA.
- M1015 is passthrough'd to FreeNAS
- After waiting x seconds, other VMs are loaded from the iSCSI share from FreeNAS.
- Tuner card is passthrough'd to my VM running mythTV.
-> FreeNAS shares my files while MythTV serves TV for the rest of the network.

VMs:
- FreeNAS
- MythBuntu
- Debian or w/e for newznab, couchpotato, sabznd, ...

Thank you :eek:
Greetings
 
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don't use iSCSI with freenas, use NFS if you want to go with that distro (the BSD target is BADLY broken).

You'll need to add a rescan/refresh in there as well to pick up the new storage if you do block - you'll need to add those commands to /etc/rc.local.d/rc.local.sh, NFS should pick up on its own.

:)
 
Thank you for your reply lopoetve and you advice. :D
May I ask what you mean with "if you do block" ?

Greetings
 
Looking over your parts list it looks like you will have four total hard drive controllers, is there a reason for that?

How I understand your setup you are doing an all in one with all of your 3TB drives on the M1015 that will be passed to your storage OS, and then a small hard driver connected to ESXi as a datastore for the storage OS. This drive I would just connect using the onboard HBA of the motherboard.

You then have a cheap HBA, I don't understand the need for this one, will it be passed to an OS?

I'm just trying to understand this better.

Thanks
 
artbird309 said:
Looking over your parts list it looks like you will have four total hard drive controllers, is there a reason for that?

How I understand your setup you are doing an all in one with all of your 3TB drives on the M1015 that will be passed to your storage OS, and then a small hard driver connected to ESXi as a datastore for the storage OS. This drive I would just connect using the onboard HBA of the motherboard.

You then have a cheap HBA, I don't understand the need for this one, will it be passed to an OS?

I'm just trying to understand this better.

Thanks
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I believe you misread, I will only have 2 M1015's as it's cheaper to have 2 of those than any other 16-ports controller. The cheap HBA is because my onboard controller isn't hardware raid, so I can't really pass that as a possible datastore. This is why I need a cheap HBA to just connect a SSD or w/e

Greetings
 
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