Hi All, Firstly it's nice to be here :D & i apologise if i have posted this in the wrong section. I've got 2xDell R720xd - 24x 1.2G sas, 1x200G flash boot & 3.4G converted EMC Cache disk. [Came with QLogic 8GB FC cards].... in short 28 storage drives 2 cach disk & 2 boot disk 24x16G ram...

I think I've finally chased down a persistent problem I've been having for nearly a year since setting up ESXi on my SAN. Some background: I've been running an FC SAN with FreeNAS for a while longer than that, but most of what it's boiled down to has been hosting a large-ish FC slice for my...

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Hi, Folks! 6 years FreeNAS user, first help post here. Upgraded from 11.0-U4 to 11.1-U4, system works fine except SCSI share was gone. Reversed back to 11.0-U4, share is back. Hardware: AsRock E3C226D2I, 16GB ECC ram, G3240, 4xST8000VX0022 as RAIDZ, 1xKingston KC300 as SCSI target for win...

Community, I'm looking for any first hand experience with performance best practices and recommended configurations for doing FibreChannel connected FreeNAS storage for use as VMware Data Stores. This post is an excellent configuration guide for enabling FC...

Hi all I am using FreeNAS 9.10 (when I upgrade to the new version plex does not work) and I install a QLE220 Fiber card to try to get connection faster when transferring data. The card appears in the Boot menu from PC but when I enter GUI of FreeNAS I do not see anything related to it. I found...

Hey all! Just started looking at FreeNAS as a SAN solution for my two host homelab. I have a QLogic QLE2462 dual port 4GB FC card inside of a Dell PowerEdge R510 that is going to be my SAN. I'm running FreeNAS 11.1 and using the guide located here to setup my qlogic card as an iSCSI target...

Hi Ich habe Fibre Channel Target Mode gemäss Forum Post freenas-9-3-fc-fibre-channel-target-mode-das-san aktiviert. Damit nicht alle LUNs bei jedem FC-Initiator gemappt werden habe ich /etc/ctl.conf mit "port ispN" ergänzt: vi /etc/ctl.conf ... target iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:server1 {...

Hello, I am trying to convince FreeNAS into using the disks from an EMC DAE Enclosure, connected through a cable directly the the FreeNAS Server. FreeNAS config: - Xeon 4 cores; - 64G RAM; - No HDDs; - 2 SLC USB Flash Drives for boot. Controller: - QLogic QLE2464 DAE: - EMC KTN-STL4 4Gbps FC...

Hello, I Have long had an admiration for the FreeNAS project, but did not really have a suitable application for it. I am unsure if FreeNAS supports what I want to do, as I have found conflicting info regarding FC support ( Some forum posts indicating it works, but official documentation...

Hello, I have the oportunity to get some EMC DAEs for free and also some FC cards, they are 4gc FC, from a CX3, and in one of the shelves there was some 1TB SATA drives with FC to SATA. My questions are: do I have any size limit in the drives I use due to the FC to SATA Interposer? (something...