Free. NAS 9. 1. 0 on VMware ESXi 6. Guide. This is a guide which will install Free. NAS 9. 1. 0 under VMware ESXi and then using ZFS share the storage back to VMware. Get proper hardware. Example 1: Supermicro 2. U Build. Super. Micro X1. SL7- F (which has a built in LSI2.

HBA). Xeon E3- 1. ECC Memory. 6 hotswap bays with 2. TB HGST HDDs (I use RAID- Z2)4 2. Flash HBA to IT Firmware. As of Free. NAS 9.

IT mode P2. 0 (looks like it’s P2. I strongly suggest pulling all drives before flashing. LSI 2. 30. 8 IT firmware for Supermicro. Here’s instructions to flash the firmware: http: //hardforum. Supermicro firmware: ftp: //ftp. Driver/SAS/LSI/2. Firmware/IT/For IBM M1.

LSI Avago 9. 22. 0- 8i. Instructions for flashing firmware: https: //forums. LSI / Avago Firmware: http: //www. If you already have the card passed through to Free.

NAS via VT- d (steps 6- 8) you can actually flash the card from Free. NAS using the sas. IT mode so I’m just upgrading it). All rights reserved. Advanced Mode Set. Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2.

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B2). Executing Operation: Flash Firmware Image. Firmware Image has a Valid Checksum. Optional: Over- provision ZIL / SLOG SSDs. If you’re going to use an SSD for SLOG you can over- provision them.

Something’s broken. Getting a 169.254 address simply tells you that the machine cannot reach the DHCP server over the network. Something isn’t working, but.

Install VMware ESXi 6. The free version of the hypervisor is here. Create a Virtual Storage Network. For this example my VMware management IP is 1. VMware Storage Network ip is 1. Free. NAS Storage Network IP is 1.

Create a virtual storage network with jumbo frames enabled. VMware, Configuration, Add Networking.

Virtual Machine. Configure the LSI 2. Passthrough (VT- d). Configuration, Advanced Settings, Configure Passthrough. Mark the LSI2. 30.

You must have VT- d enabled in the BIOS for this to work so if it won’t let you for some reason check your BIOS settings. Reboot VMware. 7.

Create the Free. NAS VM. Download the Free. NAS ISO from http: //www.

Create a new VM, choose custom, put it on one of the drives on the SATA ports, Virtual Machine version 1. Guest OS type is Free. BSD 6. 4- bit, 1 socket and 2 cores.

Install Free. NAS. Web Idea Tree Professional V5 40 Cracked Pepper here. Boot of the VM, install it to your SATA drive (or two of them to mirror boot). After it’s finished installing reboot.

Install VMware Tools. Install Windows 2003 On Raid Server Storage. SKIP THIS STEP. SSL Certificate on the Management Interface (optional)On my DHCP server I’ll give Free. NAS a static/reserved IP, and setup an entry for it on my local DNS server.

Setup Email Notifications. Account, Users, Root, Change Email, set to the email address you want to receive alerts (like if a drive fails or there’s an update available). System, Advanced. Show console messages in the footer. Setting this to 0 disables swap creation completely (STRONGLY DISCOURAGED). Configure Free. NAS Networking. Setup the Management Network (which you are currently using to connect to the Web.

GUI). Network, Interfaces, Add Interface, choose the Management NIC, vmx. DHCP. Setup the Storage Network.

Add Interface, choose the Storage NIC, vmx. I setup my VMware hosts on 1. ZFS servers on 1. Hard Drive Identification Setup. Label Drives. Periodic Snapshots. Add periodic snapshot jobs for your VMware storage under Storage, Periodic Snapshot Tasks.

ZFS Replication. If you have a second Free. NAS Server (say stor. Backups. Before going live make sure you have adequate backups!