My setup is:
HP Gen8 G2020T - 8Gig Ram - 60Gb SSD (Odd bay) - 2 x 4tB Seagate >>> OMV is installed on the Disk as the OS itself.
Running a simple stripped ZFS vdev - analog to what Raid0 would be (since I have files sync'ed elsewhere, I felt no need to have raid / zfs redundance for now.) - conveniently named "POOL"
What was I planing to do:
Install ESXi Host:
. VM 1 - PfSense for routing /firewall (since server has 2 gigabit LAN ports, one would be WAN, incoming from ISP Modem, the other would be LAN, towards my switch which distributes it across my house.)
. VM 2 - Reinstall my previously backed up image of OMV (can I do this?)
. VM 3 - Some other thing which has not occured to me yet, but most likely this VM would be on same local LAN as the OMV.
What is the best - or perhaps, recommended - way to backup / create .img / .iso from my OMV so redeploying it would be as easy as possible?
I have like 6 plugins installed which are frequently used, and I'm not fond of re configuring all of them again on a fresh OMV install on a VM.
Today I'm maxing out my gigabit network transferring files back and forth between my PCs and OMV @ 110MB/s would that be impacted by being on an ESXi VM ??
Suggestions ? Thoughts ?