Guide: Setup ZFS-over-iSCSI with PVE 5x and FreeNAS 11+

Hi.

This question has been asked many times and the answers have been good but fragmented, and rarly covers the FreeNAS setup part. I will not go in on how to install FreeNAS or howto setup ZFS pools but i will cover whats required to make this actually works.

So lets begin.

First we need to install some patches on the proxmox nodes since FreeNAS dosn't use istgt provider anymore.
The patches creates a new iSCSI provider called FreeNAS-API in the webgui.


Thanks to GrandWazoo...

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