Appliance:
Supermicro 36-drive chassis
1 x Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2
64GB RAM
12 x 6TB drives in a combined RAIDZ2 (2 RAIDZ2 stripes in a single pool; unused now, but planning to reuse; was original storage pool)
10 x 6TB drives in a RAIDZ2 (iSCSI zvol target lives here; recent addition)
Primary use: Veeam backup repository
This appliance has been running FreeNAS since the 9.x days. We've upgraded it periodically without too much issue. I recently went through a project to add space, upgrade to 11.2U2 and switch Veeam from using a Samba share from this appliance to using a 10GB iSCSI target. Performance is much better. I have iSCSI setup with a zvol extent, multipathed via two separate 10GB connections on separate subnets to a Windows Server 2016 server running Veeam. The multipathing is working great - I see traffic going out both connections. I also thought I lost the boot volume (USB flash drive) after the upgrade, so I reinstalled FreeNAS on a new USB flash drive, restored the config, and then setup a boot mirror with a second flash drive.
Since doing the upgrades, the appliance has consistently frozen over the weekends. Symptoms: WebUI inaccessible, but launches the gray page (once). LAN/MGMT NICS completely missing (don't show up on console) - at this point, SSH/WebUI are completely inaccessible (several times). Drive via iSCSI is inaccessible (every time). Today, (Tuesday) it froze again after the regular freezing yesterday. In all cases, I can access the console via IPMI, and it's responsive.
I'm assuming the freezing has something to do with the iSCSI configuration/use, but not sure. I'd be happy to try to get logs, but not sure which ones to grab.
I also thought I could try upgrading to 11.2U2, but 11.2 isn't an available train in the update options.
Oddly enough, I did try to move my System dataset from the first RAIDZ2 pool to the second, but it didn't seem to work, even though the GUI said it was configured.
Supermicro 36-drive chassis
1 x Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2
64GB RAM
12 x 6TB drives in a combined RAIDZ2 (2 RAIDZ2 stripes in a single pool; unused now, but planning to reuse; was original storage pool)
10 x 6TB drives in a RAIDZ2 (iSCSI zvol target lives here; recent addition)
Primary use: Veeam backup repository
This appliance has been running FreeNAS since the 9.x days. We've upgraded it periodically without too much issue. I recently went through a project to add space, upgrade to 11.2U2 and switch Veeam from using a Samba share from this appliance to using a 10GB iSCSI target. Performance is much better. I have iSCSI setup with a zvol extent, multipathed via two separate 10GB connections on separate subnets to a Windows Server 2016 server running Veeam. The multipathing is working great - I see traffic going out both connections. I also thought I lost the boot volume (USB flash drive) after the upgrade, so I reinstalled FreeNAS on a new USB flash drive, restored the config, and then setup a boot mirror with a second flash drive.
Since doing the upgrades, the appliance has consistently frozen over the weekends. Symptoms: WebUI inaccessible, but launches the gray page (once). LAN/MGMT NICS completely missing (don't show up on console) - at this point, SSH/WebUI are completely inaccessible (several times). Drive via iSCSI is inaccessible (every time). Today, (Tuesday) it froze again after the regular freezing yesterday. In all cases, I can access the console via IPMI, and it's responsive.
I'm assuming the freezing has something to do with the iSCSI configuration/use, but not sure. I'd be happy to try to get logs, but not sure which ones to grab.
I also thought I could try upgrading to 11.2U2, but 11.2 isn't an available train in the update options.
Oddly enough, I did try to move my System dataset from the first RAIDZ2 pool to the second, but it didn't seem to work, even though the GUI said it was configured.