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Dont believe so, only really encuontered 2 issues during the build, though I was researching for weeks before i started so knew about these ahead of time:
1. With 3x M1015 passed through to the VM the system would get stuck at boot with the following errors:
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config mps_startup
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config mps_startup
Found a solution to this on these very forums:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038483037
2. Running more than 1 CPU & 1 core in the VM causes IRQ storms, seems this is not uncommon, some have managed to resolve it by disabling unrequired hardware on the VM such as floppy drive, serial, parallel etc. Sadly this didn't work for me:
My given solution to this so far is to run 1 CPU and 1 core, which for my use seems more than sufficient, getting good speed up, down and scrubs.
At some point I need to boot a bare metal FreeNAS install and compare speeds to see if my performance is CPU bound at all. This should be as easy as exporting my FreeNAS config, pulling the ESXi USB stick out, putting a spare USB stick in, install FreeNAS and import the config and see what happens
I suspected that and ended up passing my 1015s to a Solaris install and had no issues. I'm curious what your bare metal speeds are