Transitioning from FreeNAS to Unraid or other for VM GPU Passthrough

[DR4GONSTEAR]

Please and thank you before I start, any help appreciated and if this exists else where and isn't 1-3 years old, point me at it. Also If this would be better suited somewhere else, point me there too.

 

 

I want to transition from FreeNAS to something more capable, as I need GPU pass through for a VM, but I literally barely know how to use FreeNAS. I have managed to set it up how I like and the less difficult the transition, the better. I understand that I may need to rebuild my arrays from scratch. I understand I will have to redo the iocage/jails/plugins that FreeNAS currently has “perfectly” setup.

 

I guess, first question: Can I move a real FreeNAS install, to a VM FreeNAS in an Unraid install?

 

Second question: Do I need to move them, couldn’t I just point to the USB as a boot drive and it would just “work”? Or no?

 

Question the third: Does someone have step by step instructions for me to follow?

 

Fourth: Is my server powerful enough? It handles FreeNAS fine, but the dinky VM I currently use, feels so under powered. Allocated 4 cores and 8gb of ram.

 

And the last question: If not Unraid, then what? Cost for Unraid is not unreasonable for a setup that is better than my experience with FreeNAS. Ie zero data loss in 4 years, but countless plugin rebuilds. For some reason eventually they just didn’t work properly anymore, and an upgrade of FreeNAS and new installs of plugins was a major hassle, but doable.

 

Requirements

I’d like to add an RTX2070 for VM use and set up a VM. Also if I have to rebuild from scratch, set up either 16x4TB-(2x4TB)=~56TB for 2 drive failure, or 16x4TB-(4x4TB)=~48TB for 4 drive failure.

 

Current Server Configuration:

Software

OS = FreeNAS 11.3-U5

Plugins = Plex Pass, Sonarr, Radarr, MineOS

VM = Ubuntu 18.04, running PIA and Transmission

 

Hardware

CPU = 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3.07GHz

RAM = 6x SK Hynix 16GB 2Rx4 PC3L-10600R-9 DDR3 1333 ECC 

Motherboard = ASUS Z8NA-D6C

HBA = 2x SAS 9211-8i

Boot USB RAID 1 = 2x Toshiba 32GB

Pool: System RAID 1 ZFS = 2x 2TB WD RED

Pool: NAS RAIDZ2 ZFS = 16x 4TB WD RED

Case = Chenbro RM41416 4U Rackmount

Power Supply = 3x Emacs MX1-5375p 375W (in n+1 Redundancy)

Cooler = 2x Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer C

Edited March 1, 2021 by DR4GONSTEAR
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