cougar014

Thanks for your answer! So i understand that also with XPEnology it is advised to use PCI pass-through for the HDD's?? I hoped that because it doesnt use ZFS PCI pass-through with an HBA was not necessary

Hello, I have a few questions regarding XPEnology. I want to run a single server with a fileserver on one side and windows on the other side. To accomplish this I want to use VMware ESXi to create 2 virtual machines (VM). One for XPEnology and one for windows. BUT First i looked into FREEnas to use as fileserver OS. But freenas has one downside. I does not like it when it is ran in a VM. It is possible, but with A LOT of work and even then it is considered "unreliable" and with a lot of maintenance. So my question is: How does XPEnology perform when it is ran in a VM? Is it stable? How safe is my storage? How big are the changes my data get corrupted? And is this all possible without using any fancy and expensive host bus adapters etc? So just with the motherboards storage controllers? Thanks in advance!