First install of TrueNAS Scale failure

[Marco79]

Hi everyone,

after a lot of reading on ZFS and TrueNAS, I've started testing it using a VMWare VM upon Windows 11.
After all the test (really love the implementation) I've decided to migrate my old Windows machine with hardware RAID to TrueNAS (getting out of the stone age era)

I've gone to this setup (test bench for now):

- HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 Motherboard
- Intel Xeon E3-1270v5 Quad Core CPU
- HPE 8GB 2Rx8 PC4-2133P-E DDR4 Unbuffered Server-RAM Modul U-DIMM ECC (x4 TOT 32GB)
- Broadcom 9300-16i SATA / SAS HBA Controller IT-Mode 12Gb PCIe x8 LSI

I will go to 2x SSD for boot devices and 9 x 3TB + 4 x 10TB sata hdds

For now the bench has 3 old satas (one on the MB controller and two on the LSI) for testing purpose.

Now my problem, when I try to installa TrueNAS i get the below error and the system stops there.

I have update the original bios (dated 2016) to a newer on (with no luck) and tried to remove the LSI and all the disks but I still get the error.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot!!!

Marco

 

[Marco79]

Hi everyone!

Found the solution! After a lot of checking and component swapping I found out that the problem was the CPU backplate of the motherboard!
It was slightly bent! After making it straight (carpentery work :) :)) all is now good!

Upgraded RAM and added some disks:

- HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 Motherboard
- Intel Xeon E3-1270v5 Quad Core CPU
- Kingston Server Premier 16GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC CL19 DIMM 2Rx8 Hynix D - KSM26ED8/16HD (x4 TOT 64GB)
- Broadcom 9300-16i SATA / SAS HBA Controller IT-Mode 12Gb PCIe x8 LSI

- 2 x SSD 120GB MIRROR (for boot)
- 5 x HDD 10TB RAIDZ2 (main pool)
- 9 x HDD 3TB RAIDZ2 (replication of some datasets in mail pool)
- 2 x NVME 500GB MIRROR (VMs and kubernetes apps)
- 1 x 750GB + 1 x 1TB HDD MIRROR (poll for extra VMs data)

I'have to experiment this:

Amazon.it

for the NVME drives...

I'll let you know if it works :) :)

Thanks!