I have installed FreeNAS 9.2.1.4.1 on a HP ProLiant MicroServer N54L fitted with 16GB of ECC RAM. The system has 4 x 600GB Velociraptor HDs and boots from a Kingston 16GB USB device. It also has a dual port Intel gigabit NIC.
The onboard NIC is used for management (static IP).
The additional NICs are configured to be used for iSCSI and have MTU set to 9000.
The installation seems fine in that I am able to configure using the web interface, etc.
I created a zpool of two mirrored pairs and then created a zvol on this zpool. I then created a basic iSCSI configuration (with no authentication) and connected from a Windows 2008 R2 server and confirmed that I was able to read and write to the device.
I then disconnected this target in Windows and connected in vmware ESXi 5.1. I was able to format the volume and create a VM on this LUN. The VM is configured with a 100GB drive (thick lazy zeroed). On installing Ubuntu 14.04 the disk is formatted and data transfer begins (apparently quick). The FreeNAS system then hard reboots in the course of the disk activity. This is repeatable i.e. after the system restarts, all is fine until starting the VM install when it hard reboots again.
I have changed the USB boot device. I have reinstalled.
The system has worked reliably using Ubuntu installs including ZFS on Linux and IET which means that I am reasonably confident the hardware is OK.
I would like to switch to using FreeNAS for this system so advice on how to troubleshoot from here would be very much appreciated.
The onboard NIC is used for management (static IP).
The additional NICs are configured to be used for iSCSI and have MTU set to 9000.
The installation seems fine in that I am able to configure using the web interface, etc.
I created a zpool of two mirrored pairs and then created a zvol on this zpool. I then created a basic iSCSI configuration (with no authentication) and connected from a Windows 2008 R2 server and confirmed that I was able to read and write to the device.
I then disconnected this target in Windows and connected in vmware ESXi 5.1. I was able to format the volume and create a VM on this LUN. The VM is configured with a 100GB drive (thick lazy zeroed). On installing Ubuntu 14.04 the disk is formatted and data transfer begins (apparently quick). The FreeNAS system then hard reboots in the course of the disk activity. This is repeatable i.e. after the system restarts, all is fine until starting the VM install when it hard reboots again.
I have changed the USB boot device. I have reinstalled.
The system has worked reliably using Ubuntu installs including ZFS on Linux and IET which means that I am reasonably confident the hardware is OK.
I would like to switch to using FreeNAS for this system so advice on how to troubleshoot from here would be very much appreciated.