Hyper-converged systems are hot, but what is it ?
In short : It’s a server where you run VMWare vsphere and you’re using local storage for your NAS/SAN with some better functions than the standard local datastores of VMWare got.
Is it possible to create one for home/SMB purpose ? Well.. I saw the page FreeNas on VMWare ESXi 6.0 and I thought ; Let’s give it a try.
What do you need :
- a x86 server with lots of memory (for deduplication)
- Some harddisks.
- Bootable USD/SDCard
- Two raid controllers ! One for the disks you want to put in FreeNas. One other harddisk (non-usb or sdcard) for a local datastore for the FreeNas image.
- VMWare vsphere software
- FreeNas software.