With the general trend of upgrading things on my computer these days, compounded by the fact my SSD perished right on christmas eve and now I'm twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the day stores are open again, I've been thinking about the things I want out of the home server I might eventually build.
Here's the story: I just upgraded my videocard and monitor, which cost me a pretty buck(one of which will continue to see use, the other I pawned off to a friend). In a month or two I will be upgrading the rest to something current gen(i.e. a Kaby Lake of some description).
This leaves me with what is essentially a barebones computer(a 2600K sandy bridge with 16GB of RAM and the related semi-expensive ASUS mobo). Which could be slapped in a cheap enclosure and delegated to other tasks.
The mobo features 6 sata headers - 2 sata2 and 4 sata3.
What I was thinking is creating a combo NAS/router, by running 2 VMs on the machine, hosting pfSense + FreeNAS in a 1/3 resource allocation.
How good of an idea is that? What are the potential caveats(like maybe does virtualizing FreeNAS require VT-d from the processor or somesuch, which this one doesn't have. Fie on intel and its silly market segmentation)? Is it a feasible plan at all? Like what would I use as the hypervisor, etc.
Here's the story: I just upgraded my videocard and monitor, which cost me a pretty buck(one of which will continue to see use, the other I pawned off to a friend). In a month or two I will be upgrading the rest to something current gen(i.e. a Kaby Lake of some description).
This leaves me with what is essentially a barebones computer(a 2600K sandy bridge with 16GB of RAM and the related semi-expensive ASUS mobo). Which could be slapped in a cheap enclosure and delegated to other tasks.
The mobo features 6 sata headers - 2 sata2 and 4 sata3.
What I was thinking is creating a combo NAS/router, by running 2 VMs on the machine, hosting pfSense + FreeNAS in a 1/3 resource allocation.
How good of an idea is that? What are the potential caveats(like maybe does virtualizing FreeNAS require VT-d from the processor or somesuch, which this one doesn't have. Fie on intel and its silly market segmentation)? Is it a feasible plan at all? Like what would I use as the hypervisor, etc.