Elliot Dierksen
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Big upgrades are afoot in the Nerdvana I call my home office. For the most part it went pretty well, but I did run into one strange issue. My old system used a 9207-8e to connect to two HP external storage arrays (D2700 on port 1, port 2 on D2700 controllers connected to port 1 on D2600). This worked great for quite some time. When I was building the new system, it seemed like a cool idea to upgrade to a 9300-8e just because. Yes, I do know that these external arrays only support 6G. The 9300-8e only sees the array to which it is directly connected, but not the daisy chained D2600. The 9207-8e still sees both external arrays.
Old system:
Cisco C240 M3S
2 x E5-2637 v2
256G RAM
LSI 9207-8i for internal drives (LSI 2308 chipset)
LSI 9207-8e for external arrays (LSI 2308 chipset)
Chelsio T580-CR NIC for storage network
Intel i350 2 port LAGG for management
FreeNAS 11.2-U8
New system
Cisco C240 M4SX
2 x E5-2637 v3
256G RAM
Cisco SAS HBA for internal drives (LSI 3108 chipset)
LSI 9207-8e for external arrays (LSI 2308 chipset)
LSI 9300-8e for external arrays (LSI 3008 chipset)
Chelsio T580-CR NIC for storage network
Intel i350 2 port LAGG for management
FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1
The new system also sees both external arrays when they are connected to the 9207-8e, so this is definitely an HBA thing and not a FreeNAS version thing.
Old system:
Cisco C240 M3S
2 x E5-2637 v2
256G RAM
LSI 9207-8i for internal drives (LSI 2308 chipset)
LSI 9207-8e for external arrays (LSI 2308 chipset)
Chelsio T580-CR NIC for storage network
Intel i350 2 port LAGG for management
FreeNAS 11.2-U8
New system
Cisco C240 M4SX
2 x E5-2637 v3
256G RAM
Cisco SAS HBA for internal drives (LSI 3108 chipset)
LSI 9207-8e for external arrays (LSI 2308 chipset)
LSI 9300-8e for external arrays (LSI 3008 chipset)
Chelsio T580-CR NIC for storage network
Intel i350 2 port LAGG for management
FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1
The new system also sees both external arrays when they are connected to the 9207-8e, so this is definitely an HBA thing and not a FreeNAS version thing.