mhampton
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I have a spare Dell R720 to experiment with FreeNAS. My goal is to build a prototype to test FreeNAS' capabilities before purchasing from iX Systems.
My R720 has 2 x SAS HBAs. Each HBA has 2 ports for a total of 4 ports. The R720 also has 2 x 10GB network interface, and 4 x 1GB network interfaces.
The 4 SAS ports are connected to 2 Dell MD3220 arrays, each with 2 controllers, so that each of the disks are "visible" from the R720 via dual paths -- i.e. multipathing. Each disk is presented to the R720 as a seperate LUN.
FreeNAS 9.3 installs fine, however when I try to create a volume, it is treating both paths as if they were individual disks rather than multiple paths to a single disk.
How do I get FreeNAS to recognize that these are multipath disks?
Note the following: "View Disks" page doesn't show the multipath disks at all, but when I click "Volume Manager", I see all of the disks twice.
My R720 has 2 x SAS HBAs. Each HBA has 2 ports for a total of 4 ports. The R720 also has 2 x 10GB network interface, and 4 x 1GB network interfaces.
The 4 SAS ports are connected to 2 Dell MD3220 arrays, each with 2 controllers, so that each of the disks are "visible" from the R720 via dual paths -- i.e. multipathing. Each disk is presented to the R720 as a seperate LUN.
FreeNAS 9.3 installs fine, however when I try to create a volume, it is treating both paths as if they were individual disks rather than multiple paths to a single disk.
How do I get FreeNAS to recognize that these are multipath disks?
Note the following: "View Disks" page doesn't show the multipath disks at all, but when I click "Volume Manager", I see all of the disks twice.