How I fixed every weird problem with running TrueNAS Core on ESXi 7

[GW2]

I got rid of ESXi and just installed it on hardware directly, have not had a single problem in a week, no crashes, no "root mount waiting for da da", my jails are all working now without weird networking issues that i had on ESXi. I really have to say, if you aren't going to do too much with a server other than run truenas, a few jails/plugins, and maybe a vm or 3, you don't really need the hypervisor, skip it and have a better time.

 

[Scharbag]

I got rid of ESXi and just installed it on hardware directly, have not had a single problem in a week, no crashes, no "root mount waiting for da da", my jails are all working now without weird networking issues that i had on ESXi. I really have to say, if you aren't going to do too much with a server other than run truenas, a few jails/plugins, and maybe a vm or 3, you don't really need the hypervisor, skip it and have a better time.

I fail to see the value of your post as it offers nothing to the community at all other than to point out the fact that you could not figure out how to virtualize TrueNAS (even though there are many guides out there).

Mine virtualized system has been stable since 2015 through 3 hardware upgrades and a multitude of hard drive changes. Are you running on proper hardware? Did you follow the best practices shared on these forums?

Anyway, you do you.

 

[GW2]

I fail to see the value of your post as it offers nothing to the community at all other than to point out the fact that you could not figure out how to virtualize TrueNAS (even though there are many guides out there).

Mine virtualized system has been stable since 2015 through 3 hardware upgrades and a multitude of hard drive changes. Are you running on proper hardware? Did you follow the best practices shared on these forums?

Anyway, you do you.

The point is to illustrate to not complicate your setup if you don't really need it.

All hardware is server grade approved hardware (all in my sig) and all works 100% without issue in truenas core on hardware, or ESXi virutalizing any other OS, windows or linux, pci passthrough, etc, no issues.

I'm glad your virtualized system is stable but I noticed on here a lot of people have issues that never get solved, or lately issues are usually said to be a problem with FreeBSD and not truenas and thus basically cannot be solved other than by going to an older version. But I can the latest verison fine on hardware without issue. I've read everything I can find, sticky threads, guides, etc, nothing mentions anything out of the ordinary for setting anything up except reserving VM memory, and using pci passthrough.

I'll add that I do virtualization for a living using ESXi, Hyper-V & KVM but have never virtualized truenas core before and I never seemed to have any issues with any other OS. and I bought hardware to ensure I was truenas compatible. Never got it to work consistently when virtualized. If you have any advice I am open to it

 

[Scharbag]

The point is to illustrate to not complicate your setup if you don't really need it.

All hardware is server grade approved hardware (all in my sig) and all works 100% without issue in truenas core on hardware, or ESXi virutalizing any other OS, windows or linux, pci passthrough, etc, no issues.

I'm glad your virtualized system is stable but I noticed on here a lot of people have issues that never get solved, or lately issues are usually said to be a problem with FreeBSD and not truenas and thus basically cannot be solved other than by going to an older version. But I can the latest verison fine on hardware without issue. I've read everything I can find, sticky threads, guides, etc, nothing mentions anything out of the ordinary for setting anything up except reserving VM memory, and using pci passthrough.

I'll add that I do virtualization for a living using ESXi, Hyper-V & KVM but have never virtualized truenas core before and I never seemed to have any issues with any other OS. and I bought hardware to ensure I was truenas compatible. Never got it to work consistently when virtualized. If you have any advice I am open to it

Remember - TrueNAS on ESXi is not a recommended implementation. Sucks that you have issues but lots of people do not.

This article is what got me started - perhaps there is something in it that could help.

Cheers,

 

[RegularJoe]

and to add to that ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors, it has FAR fewer issues trying to take a physical workload and run it on ESXi. I have never really had major issues with ESXi for anything.

 

[GW2]

and to add to that ESXi is the gold standard for hypervisors, it has FAR fewer issues trying to take a physical workload and run it on ESXi. I have never really had major issues with ESXi for anything.

Me either, TrueNAS Core is the only OS I ever had trouble running. All hardware worked fine on windows and linux VMs in ESXi