Hi there,
I plan to have Truenas Fileserver running as VM on a PVE host in an Active Directory Environment. The machine is a HP DL380 Gen10 server which has an NVMe riser card installed, already hosting 3x U2 drives as storage for the VMs.
The remaining 5x I want to PCIe passthrough to the Truenas VM which seems easier than expected. No nasty RAID controller interfering and clean passthrough is theoretically possible as each drive comes in a separate IOMMU group.
Before I go shopping them drives (Micron 7400 PRO 3.84TB U.3): Did I miss anything? I just hope that when passing them through, “automatic” disabling on the PVE host will work because otherwise I don’t see any chance of doing it driver-wise. edit: Just found this in case of such issues:
If you do early binding to vfio-pci, you don’t have to blacklist drivers. Just make sure vfio-pci loads first using a softdep.
Thanks for your input!