I am working on setting up a server in our lab at work with FreeNAS and seem to be stumbling upon how to do what I want to do. I have looked over the manual and checked out noobsauce80's slide show here:
http://forums.freenas.org/showthread...2ARC-for-noobs!
So hard drives go into zdev's - Got it
zdev's go into zpool's - Got it
Here is my setup:
28 146GB 10k RPM Drives in Dell PowerVault 220S enclosures
PowerEdge 2850 running FreeNAS 8.3.1 RC1 on a 4GB Flash drive
The FreeNAS will be storage for a separate VMWare ESXi host, and for performance I want to create 14 mirrors, and create 2 zpool's from those, with 7 mirrors each. With the GUI, creating a volume seems to essentially be creating zpool's so I don't see how I can create the 14 mirrored arrays, and then form the 2 large zpool's from them.
Perhaps I need to do it via the shell? am I missing something?
http://forums.freenas.org/showthread...2ARC-for-noobs!
So hard drives go into zdev's - Got it
zdev's go into zpool's - Got it
Here is my setup:
28 146GB 10k RPM Drives in Dell PowerVault 220S enclosures
PowerEdge 2850 running FreeNAS 8.3.1 RC1 on a 4GB Flash drive
The FreeNAS will be storage for a separate VMWare ESXi host, and for performance I want to create 14 mirrors, and create 2 zpool's from those, with 7 mirrors each. With the GUI, creating a volume seems to essentially be creating zpool's so I don't see how I can create the 14 mirrored arrays, and then form the 2 large zpool's from them.
Perhaps I need to do it via the shell? am I missing something?