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[Lasse Jensen]

This log is from my new install on a ESXi 6.5 with 3 physical mapped 4TB drives, a 8GB virtual boot drive and 16Gb of RAM
Next entry will be at approx. 21:24 and looks the same, and again 21:54
The system is apparently working very well, sharing a single striped volume via samba CIFS/SMB over a 1Gbit link.

Any ideas anyone?

Code:

Jul 31 20:54:10 freenas collectd[6039]: aggregation plugin: Unable to read the current rate of "freenas.local/cpu-23/cpu-user".
Jul 31 20:54:10 freenas collectd[6039]: utils_vl_lookup: The user object callback failed with status 2.
Jul 31 20:54:11 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): READ(16). CDB: 88 00 00 00 00 01 92 80 6d 70 00 00 01 00 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:11 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:11 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:11 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:13 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): READ(16). CDB: 88 00 00 00 00 01 92 80 6d 70 00 00 01 00 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:13 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:13 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:13 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:14 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): READ(16). CDB: 88 00 00 00 00 01 92 80 6d 70 00 00 01 00 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:14 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:14 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:14 freenas (da2:mpt0:0:2:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:15 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): WRITE(16). CDB: 8a 00 00 00 00 01 96 dc ac 50 00 00 00 08 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:15 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:15 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:15 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:16 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): WRITE(16). CDB: 8a 00 00 00 00 01 96 dc ac 50 00 00 00 08 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:16 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:16 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:16 freenas (da3:mpt0:0:3:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:17 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(16). CDB: 8a 00 00 00 00 01 92 ed 72 60 00 00 00 08 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:17 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:17 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:17 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command
Jul 31 20:54:19 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(16). CDB: 8a 00 00 00 00 01 92 ed 72 60 00 00 00 08 00 00
Jul 31 20:54:19 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Jul 31 20:54:19 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy
Jul 31 20:54:19 freenas (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): Retrying command

 

[joeschmuck]

My opinion is you should not be mapping drives to FreeNAS but you should be passing through the SATA interface.

This is an ESXi question in reality so I'm moving this to Off Topic. I'm willing to lend some assistance but you will need to provide your system specs and your VM setup, and try to include the VM version (likely 13) and FreeNAS version. Did you lock your RAM? Not that I think this is the problem but it's prudent to lock your RAM for FreeNAS.

 

[Lasse Jensen]

Hi and Thanks for you time.
I don't understand "but you should be passing through the SATA interface"
can i connect a disk other than as datastore inside vmware or as a RDM in vmware

Some details on my setup:

Guest OS: FreeBSD (64-bit)
FreeNAS-11.0-U2

ESXi 6.5 and later (VM version 13)

Disk setup:
Type ”Thick provisioned, lazily zeroed”
Shares ”normal”
Limit IOPs ”Unlimited”
Virtual Device Node ”SCSI controller 0”
Disk mode ”Independent – persistent”
SCSI Controller 0 ”LSI Logic Parallel”


vmware device:
vmhba0
Model ”ICH10 6 port SATA AHCI Controller”
Driver ”vmw_ahci”


Hardware:
3x Seagate ST4000DM 4TB drives in RDM setup (Raw Device Mapping)
Supermicro X8DTi-F onboard SATA controller used
64GB DDR3 ECC RAM

 

[Lasse Jensen]

Don't waste your time just yet, I'm looking at this VT-d hardware pass trough, so perhaps you already pointed me in the right direction.
I shout in your direction again if hardware pass trough doesn't work for me.
Thanks. And best regards from here.

 

[joeschmuck]

Yes, RDM is a hit or miss and I can't explain why it is that way. Some people can make it work, most cannot make it work reliably with FreeNAS. I'm not familiar with your motherboard so I can't say if you will be able to pass-though the SATA controller properly and still be able to boot up the machine. If you are booting from a USB Flash drive then I think you can make it work but then you have no place for a datastore except on the USB flash drive. This is not ideal for someone using ESXi.

 

[cyberjock]

Yes, RDM is a hit or miss and I can't explain why it is that way. Some people can make it work, most cannot make it work reliably with FreeNAS. I'm not familiar with your motherboard so I can't say if you will be able to pass-though the SATA controller properly and still be able to boot up the machine. If you are booting from a USB Flash drive then I think you can make it work but then you have no place for a datastore except on the USB flash drive. This is not ideal for someone using ESXi.

FYI.. the current versions of ESXi will no longer let you put a datastore on the USB drive without some OS hacking of ESXi. Based on some experience of people that chose to use the hack, I wouldn't recommend using the hack as it creates nasty new problems when (not if) the USB drive starts to wear out.

 

[joeschmuck]

FYI.. the current versions of ESXi will no longer let you put a datastore on the USB drive without some OS hacking of ESXi. Based on some experience of people that chose to use the hack, I wouldn't recommend using the hack as it creates nasty new problems when (not if) the USB drive starts to wear out.

I didn't know that, probably because I don't think it's a good idea in the first place. I could see some people doing this if for nothing else but to say they did it.