I have a 10+ year old Freenas box that has done me very well but it's old hardware and I can't update it anymore, plus I now own a rack and thus want something rack mountable.
I've been searching high and low and it's really hard to find a short depth chassis that supports 4x 3.5 inch HDDs or...
TL;DR my datacenter lost power, Yay! Most things came up OK but DFS-R was borked and I didn't get an alert because my email server was down as well. I have two identical Dell R510 servers with about 3-4TB total on them.
So replication stopped for a month and one of my servers is way behind now...
I have a Dell R510 with (Dual CPU / 6 Core) and 130GB of ram. My pool consists of three 12 disk raidz3 plus a mirrored SSD ZIL and a four disk SSD L2ARC. It's also on a fully 10 gig network (and reflects that in config). HBA is a beastly lsi 9300-16e.
Nothing I can do is making this thing...
Hey Guys,
I'm playing with two freenas servers (using zfs), both big boxes (lots of cpu/ram) and each have an MD1000 w/ 15 disks, one of which im using to boot the OS and the rest I'm using in a raidz3 (two 7 disk vdevs).
Anyways my question is, I enabled ZFS replication from freenas01...
I have a storage server with two raid60 volumes and both are having random drives disappear, turn foreign or fail completely. If I reboot the disks pop back in and rebuild.
The failed drives will throw alerts "A block on the physical disk has been punctured by the controller: Physical Disk...
I happen to have a 2012 R2 server attached to a couple MD1000 arrays. I dumped 24 x 4 TB drives in there with the intention of creating a large file server for my work ( we already have a few of these running RAID60 / NTFS Volumes )
I figured now that we are on R2 I would try Storage Spaces...
I have a Dell 1950 attached to an MD1000 enclosure
The MD1000 is agnostic, if I put a proper sas hba in the server it should see 4TB disks.
Anyone have suggestions on which one? I only need 1 external path
Hey Guys,
So my friends business stores massive images and he requires at least 70TB usable storage after redundancy.
First thing that comes to mind is direct attach / chain some MD1000's together and manage it from a cheap dell server like an old 2950. I did this at work for our file...
OK here is my network plan so far(IPs below). I'm wondering if I need to bother setting up VLANs and create different subnets.. or should I keep it flat? Freenas also has an iSCSI target which ESXI uses.
VLANs are mostly for security and to cut down network chatter right? all this is within...
I inherited a Dell 2724 gigabit switch and the fan is noisy as hell, I see no replacement 40mm fans around that have the same voltage/amperage.. I tried a few I had around and they didnt work (its 5v 0.24a)
I can't see this thing getting very hot, not a lot of traffic is flowing through it as...
Was watching a TV show from my HTPC and it started freezing, buffering, dropping packets.. I tried to play it from my desktop and it did the same thing. OK must be Freenas.
I rebooted it for good measure and start playing again, same thing. Strange, So I transfer a file to it and it goes from...
Hey guys, is this possible?
I have two Dell 1950s, both have 4 gigabit ports (2 onboard 2 w/ broadcom card)
One box is Freenas and one is ESXI, I've setup ISCSI on Freenas and it works great however i'd love to add some more bandwidth. What I don't have is a managed switch supporting LACP...
Hey Guys,
Thanks to you guys i'm nearly done my setup, best tech forum on the internet. How would you guys split 15 x 750g drives in ZFS? I'm thinking just a Z2 but would you go so far as a Z3? or maybe Z2 w/ a hot spare? This is for media storage
They are enterprise drives with low usage...
Hey Guys,
Just bought a small 3 level townhome, I want to have wireless on each floor.
My intention is to use PFsense as a router installed on a small server, what's the best way to run wireless? Can I just plug in two antennas over the network to the router?
I have a linksys router, in...
I have a 1950 w/ 2 146gb 15k SAS drives. Obviously I cannot put my VM's there, I'm building a big Array on an MD1000 I hooked up but that is connected to a different server
Can I run VM's through the network? for instance I install ESXI on the 15k drives but the VM's run on the MD1000. I have...
I am about to create a new storage setup as I inherited some hardware as shown below:
Dell 1950 w/ SAS HBA connected to an MD1000 w/ 13x 750gb ES + 2x 1000gb ES drives. I'm thinking of doing raidz2 in freenas so i'd have 9TB storage w/ 2 drives for redundancy. (Maybe 1 hot spare as well)...
Hey Guys,
I bought a place and will be moving in probably 3 months from now. Also I just bought a network closet and a couple servers to rack in there.
Recently I thought.. damn I have to pay my own electricity bill now, how can I mitigate the costs? computers are expensive to run 24/7...
Hey Guys,
I've viewed many a network/storage porn threads on this forum but finally I have my own project! I have a 6 TB Freenas currently but I just bought a home recently which has a garage. My first thought? Buy a half rack and fill it full of nerdy goodness! yay freedom :). The purpose is...