MelThorpe
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I picked up a Dell R510 and it has the H700 which cant be flashed, so I picked up a pre-flashed H200 so I can potentially use pass-through to the disks.
My current FreeNAS server has (6) 2TB drives setup up in RAIDZ2 and I am working the plan on how I want to setup the new FreeNAS box. I will be starting out with (6) 2TB drives to get the new FreeNAS server up and running, copy over the data from the current FreeNAS server and then I want to move the (6) 2TB disks from the current server to the new one and add those drives to the existing pool, if thats possible. I know I can expand a virtual disk in the Dell using OpenManage, but its a bit of a pain on this gen of Dell with no Windows OS on the box.
1) Use the H700 hardware RAID in the Dell to create a large virtual disk using RAID10, but its not clear if FreeNAS supports the H700 in this config
2) Use the flashed H200 so FreeNAS can see the disks and use RAIDZ2
3) Use the flashed H200 hardware RAID to create a large virtual disk using RAID10 similar to #1
I'm sort of leaning towards option #2, but I thought I would throw it out there to see what people have for suggestions and if there are any limitations with the hardware as to what I can do on this box.
My current FreeNAS server has (6) 2TB drives setup up in RAIDZ2 and I am working the plan on how I want to setup the new FreeNAS box. I will be starting out with (6) 2TB drives to get the new FreeNAS server up and running, copy over the data from the current FreeNAS server and then I want to move the (6) 2TB disks from the current server to the new one and add those drives to the existing pool, if thats possible. I know I can expand a virtual disk in the Dell using OpenManage, but its a bit of a pain on this gen of Dell with no Windows OS on the box.
1) Use the H700 hardware RAID in the Dell to create a large virtual disk using RAID10, but its not clear if FreeNAS supports the H700 in this config
2) Use the flashed H200 so FreeNAS can see the disks and use RAIDZ2
3) Use the flashed H200 hardware RAID to create a large virtual disk using RAID10 similar to #1
I'm sort of leaning towards option #2, but I thought I would throw it out there to see what people have for suggestions and if there are any limitations with the hardware as to what I can do on this box.