Hello -
In preparation of a new (my first) FreeNAS build, I am playing with it in VMWare, running on OSX 10.9. I am providing it 1 core, 4GB Ram. FreeNAS Is installed into a 4GB virtual Drive and there are 4 more 4GB drives setup.
When I try to create a raidz2 volume using the latter 4 x 4GB Drives, it is always telling me the pool size will be 4GB, not 8GB (approx), which I am expecting.
Is this a VMware quirk?
My real setup will be on an older dual core X2 @ 2.9Ghz, 12GB DDR3 (not ECC), 6x2TB data drives, and running Freenas via USB.
Intended storage data is going to be mostly video and some audio for streaming to in-house Mediaportal clients.
Why is ZFS making a 4GB and not 8GB volume? I am expecting when I add the 6x2TB to have 8TB of space (approx).
Thanks!
In preparation of a new (my first) FreeNAS build, I am playing with it in VMWare, running on OSX 10.9. I am providing it 1 core, 4GB Ram. FreeNAS Is installed into a 4GB virtual Drive and there are 4 more 4GB drives setup.
When I try to create a raidz2 volume using the latter 4 x 4GB Drives, it is always telling me the pool size will be 4GB, not 8GB (approx), which I am expecting.
Is this a VMware quirk?
My real setup will be on an older dual core X2 @ 2.9Ghz, 12GB DDR3 (not ECC), 6x2TB data drives, and running Freenas via USB.
Intended storage data is going to be mostly video and some audio for streaming to in-house Mediaportal clients.
Why is ZFS making a 4GB and not 8GB volume? I am expecting when I add the 6x2TB to have 8TB of space (approx).
Thanks!