Mostly any modern processor will work fine. FreeNAS has hardware requirements you actually have to think about before buying your server. Make sure you verify all this up front, finding out your server hardware is insufficient halfway through can get quite expensive. Naturally FreeNAS has a few requirements, most are nothing special but there are a few specifics.
I hope writing this blog will give you the correct information, unlike what can mostly be found online. I’m sure they mean to help, but I found that you shouldn’t write off FreeNAS because of this. The reactions and links being posted to such questions are mostly based on ancient knowledge and not true for today, some even manage to claim the exact opposite of what the actual developers of FreeNAS say. Now for people having done more extensive research, you might have noticed their community forums are not so much of a happy place for people trying to run FreeNAS in a VM and asking questions about it. The reason I went with FreeNAS is because of the whole package and my interest in ZFS with all it’s features. It has a nice UI, iSCSI, NFS, everything you’d want from a NAS perspective (even VM support and “Jails”). Packing ZFS technology for the storage layer, it’s completely different than your average hardware RAID card in most servers. Some of you may have searched for NAS software, it’s likely that you ran into FreeNAS during your search. VMware does not support RDM functionality with local disks.
Since I wanted to have a NAS too, I figured I’d try to combine both in one physical server!įreeNAS does not support running inside a VM for production. Due to this I’d rather not have multiple servers continuously running, I much rather have just one piece of hardware. In my homelab I try to use as little electricity as possible, not just because I live in The Netherlands and electricity is expensive, mostly because the house I live in is (climate/CO2) neutral and only has 6MWh of electricity per year available from the sun.
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