jimphreak
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Ok so this is my first time using FreeNAS. I have a 6-drive server with FreeNAS installed on a USB drive.
First off I need some clarification on the difference between zpools, vdevs, and volumes. Within the Storage setting is the Volume Manager. Here I'd like to create a 6-drive RAIDz2 volume. Is the word volume here referring to a zpool or a vdev? I'm confused because what I've read on FreeNAS' forum is that a zpool is referred to as a volume but if this is creating a zpool how do you create vdevs within that zpool?
Ok with that noob question out of the way...
I have 6x3TB drives installed on my server. I'd say at least 60-70% of that space I'd like to dedicate to my media storage as I already have 2.5TB of media ready to copied over and this amount will grow quickly over the next 1-2 years. I also would like to have at least 1-2TB of space for VM snapshots. My most important VM (Media server) will need multiple shares (one for access to all my media and one for snapshot backup). I will also want to store my personal files (H Drive redirection) from 2-3 Windows PCs and was thinking I could either create a separate dataset for that or store those files in the same dataset as my media. All systems that will be accessing my FreeNAS box are Windows operating systems.
So to summarize I'll be using FreeNAS for the following:
1. Media storage access to VMs (Media Server VM, Torrent VM)
2. Personal documents storage (folder redirection of H Drives from 2-3 Windows PCs)
3. VM snapshot backups
4. Windows Image backups
I'm open to suggests for how best to setup my datasets and shares as this is the first time I'll be using VMware in a production type setup and I'm not 100% sure as to how to set this all up in the most efficient way.
First off I need some clarification on the difference between zpools, vdevs, and volumes. Within the Storage setting is the Volume Manager. Here I'd like to create a 6-drive RAIDz2 volume. Is the word volume here referring to a zpool or a vdev? I'm confused because what I've read on FreeNAS' forum is that a zpool is referred to as a volume but if this is creating a zpool how do you create vdevs within that zpool?
Ok with that noob question out of the way...
I have 6x3TB drives installed on my server. I'd say at least 60-70% of that space I'd like to dedicate to my media storage as I already have 2.5TB of media ready to copied over and this amount will grow quickly over the next 1-2 years. I also would like to have at least 1-2TB of space for VM snapshots. My most important VM (Media server) will need multiple shares (one for access to all my media and one for snapshot backup). I will also want to store my personal files (H Drive redirection) from 2-3 Windows PCs and was thinking I could either create a separate dataset for that or store those files in the same dataset as my media. All systems that will be accessing my FreeNAS box are Windows operating systems.
So to summarize I'll be using FreeNAS for the following:
1. Media storage access to VMs (Media Server VM, Torrent VM)
2. Personal documents storage (folder redirection of H Drives from 2-3 Windows PCs)
3. VM snapshot backups
4. Windows Image backups
I'm open to suggests for how best to setup my datasets and shares as this is the first time I'll be using VMware in a production type setup and I'm not 100% sure as to how to set this all up in the most efficient way.