Is Freenas a good solution for me?

[Xerwulf]

Hey friends, greetings from germany.
I need some help if I can switch to Freenas. Actually I got an MS Server 2019 with Hyper-V.
What do I have/What do I need:

-Webservers (Apache2) with SQL/PHP ...(For Bookstack and Wordpress)
-Nextcloud
-Plex
-E-Mail Server (Actually Mailcow)
-VPN
-Sabnzbd
-Local Storage SMB
-Linux/Docker VM for Unifi Controller

I got an Asus Server Board with 32GB ECC, 3x 500GB SSD 1x 6TB HDD, 1x 8TB HDD
No Raid for my HOME Server.

Can I realize this configuration in Freenas ? (Without much tinkering)

Why I want to change?
It costs me too much time to maintenance all the VMs.

Thanks for reading ;)!

 

[cJZ]

Hey friends, greetings from germany.
I need some help if I can switch to Freenas. Actually I got an MS Server 2019 with Hyper-V.
What do I have/What do I need:

-Webservers (Apache2) with SQL/PHP ...(For Bookstack and Wordpress)
-Nextcloud
-Plex
-E-Mail Server (Actually Mailcow)
-VPN
-Sabnzbd
-Local Storage SMB
-Linux/Docker VM for Unifi Controller

I got an Asus Server Board with 32GB ECC, 3x 500GB SSD 1x 6TB HDD, 1x 8TB HDD
No Raid for my HOME Server.

Can I realize this configuration in Freenas ? (Without much tinkering)

Why I want to change?
It costs me too much time to maintenance all the VMs.

Thanks for reading ;)!

FreeNAS is a file server before all else. It will work quite well in the roles you have described, but, without redundancy, you will be wasting its features and system resources. You would be better served with a bare metal hypervisor like ESXi or even (my preference) Proxmox.

 

[joeschmuck]

Why I want to change?
It costs me too much time to maintenance all the VMs.

Um, do you feel that FreeNAS will help you with that?

FreeNAS is a file server before all else. It will work quite well in the roles you have described, but, without redundancy, you will be wasting its features and system resources. You would be better served with a bare metal hypervisor like ESXi or even (my preference) Proxmox.

I like ESXi myself, never used Proxmox, maybe it's time I do now that I have a spare server board just wasting away in the basement which was running ESXi without issue.

 

[cJZ]

I like ESXi myself, never used Proxmox, maybe it's time I do now that I have a spare server board just wasting away in the basement which was running ESXi without issue.

You certainly don't need server hardware to run Proxmox, commodity business i5 small form-factor workstations work exceedingly well.

You can have many nodes in your cluster, and perform live migrations (with some drawbacks) between nodes. ZFS works out of the box, although I do not expect as much resiliency from my virtual machines as I do from my FreeNAS server. The point is that live instant snapshots, clustering, ZFS, Ceph, KVM and LXC, OpenVswitch, all packaged over Debian stable (think up to date drivers!)... Every nerd needs that on their LAN.

 

[joeschmuck]

Every nerd needs that on their LAN.

I'd say I was one of the original nerds but over time it appears to be less nerdy to be involved in computers as it's more of a main stream thing to be these days.