See Main article 2020 FreeNAS upgrade. Moving a ZFS pool of disks to a new storage server is supported and easy. A few notes: ZFS formatted disks contain a GUID to identify them. The order physical order they are installed or how they are connected makes no difference. It is important to write Disk serial numbers down by their install slot as this makes it much … Continue reading Moving ZFS pool devices
See main article FreeNAS 2020 Build The process of setting up the hardware ran into a few snags. FreeNAS crash When inserting my first HDD into a front-panel slot on the SuperMicro box, FreeNAS immediately started to crash on boot as shown. The key info is: GEOM_RAID: SiI-070610140534: Force array start due to timeout. FreeNAS forums document that drives previously used with Software RAID or … Continue reading 2020 FreeNAS HBA setup
This is a link to my First FreeNAS build back in 2014. FreeNAS SAN with 10TB storage on Dell 2950 for vSphere. While VMware vSAN is very interesting it does require 3 or 4 hosts minimum , with SSD’s in each host. For a home lab and use for Plex Media a found that I can keep power consumption down by using a FreeNAS server … Continue reading 2014 FreeNAS Build
See Main article 2020 FreeNAS upgrade. To support FreeNAS, the following upgrades were added to the base SuperMicro 2U chassis. The approximate Ebay prices are shown. SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 M.2 adapter card ( $41 ) 2 x M.2 NVMe to U.2 (SFF-8639) cable ( $35 each ) Intel 400GB DC-PC3700 NVMe U.2 drive ( $99 ) rated 10DWPD for Slog Intel 1.2 TB DC-P3600 NVMe U.2 … Continue reading 2020 FreeNAS component upgrades
My previous 2014 FreeNAS build has been running 6 years now, so it was time for an upgrade. This storage is used for my vSphere Lab, Plex media sever, Music miniDLNA server and other things around the house. The new hardware supports the use of BSD Virtual machines now available in FreeNAS and a library of plug-ins that run in BSD jails. On my … Continue reading 2020 FreeNAS upgrade
Introduction This post documents my evolving home-lab setup as of December 2018 Since many of my clients are smaller SMB’s they often need hands-on help with physical storage, networking and security in addition to VMware. Since my background was coming from a software ( not IT ) area I needed a lab that used physical hardware ( e.g production servers and network equipment ) Equipment … Continue reading vSphere / ESXi homelab setup
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