My most critical NFS share is a 1TB share for my CCTV software VM where all my footage is archived. To confirm, this will make ESXi rescan my NFS shares and re-mount them after a reboot? P.S: The post-init command above has been added to my FreeNAS under Tasks/ Init/Shutdown Scripts as a command. Pool: Mirror (12 x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS HDN726040ALE614 and Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS72404ALE640) Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 4 x Intel GbEĮSXi boot and datastores: 100GB Intel DC S3700 + 512GB Samsung 970 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD on Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Virtualized on VMware ESXi v6.7 with 4 vCPUs and 128GB RAMīoard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ with dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 256GB RAMĬase: Supermicro CSE-846BA-R920B 4U 24-bay with BPN-SAS-846A backplane Pool: Mirror (2 x 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 (0F30141) Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 2 x Intel GbE NICsĮSXi boot and datastores: 100GB Intel DC S3500 SSD + 512GB Samsung SM961 M.2 NVMe SSD Virtualized on VMware ESXi v6.7 with 2 vCPUs and 32GB RAMīoard: Supermicro X11SSM-F with Intel Xeon E3-1280 v6 64GB RAMĬase: Supermicro 835TQ-R800B 3U 8-bay with CSE-SAS-833TQ backplane Pool 2: Stripe (2 x 14TB HGST/WDC Ultrastar DC HC530 WUH721414AL4204, alternating between fireproof safe and BACON) Pool 1: 2 x 5-disk RAIDZ2 vdevs using 4TB HGST UltraStar 7K6 SAS3 4kn drives Network: SolarFlare SFN6122F 10GbE, 2 x Intel GbE Is there another way to deal with this? I would really appreciate any guidance.īoard: Supermicro X10SRL-F with Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 3.2GHz, 128GB RAMĬase: Supermicro SC826BE1C-R920LPB 3U 12-bay with BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane To get it working again effectively I have to remove the NFS mount and remount it and then re-register the VMs each time I reboot which isn't a great solution obviously.

My question is when I reboot the server, ESXi comes up first obviously and tries to NFS mount the FreeNAS volume but can't (as FreeNAS hasn't started yet when ESXi first comes up) and so it looks stale and the VMs don't register. The performance of this is really good which I was surprised with but that's a good thing. FreeNAS has all the other drives passed through and has a volume serving back a datastore to ESXi for other VMs via NFS v4.1.ESXi 6.7 on bare metal with a small local SSD hosting the FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 VM.I got to the point where I couldn't deal with the poor performance of Bhyve VMs on FreeNAS (it really is broken) and recently have moved back to VMware for VMs. I would really appreciate some help on this.

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