3DM2 - 3Ware 9500s Web Management

[max1e6]

I am interested in installing the 3Ware 3DM2 management utility on a FreeNAS server.

I currently have a box with two 3Ware 9500s SATA controllers. The FreeNAS image is running on a 4GB USB flash drive.

The tw_cli command line interface is working.

Yesterday, I hacked the installation for the 10.2 3DM2 installer, installed 3DM2, and confirmed that it was working. However, once I rebooted the install was overwritten.

What is the best way to get the 3DM2 utility installed on the flash image?

 

[jgreco]

You'll need to putter around just a tad. I don't recall specifically what all the 3dm2 installer does, on an old server here I can see /usr/sbin/3dm2, and /etc/3dm2 plus config files. I'm guessing your /usr/sbin/3dm2 didn't go away - correct? If so, basically you probably just need to figure out how to get persistence for /etc/3dm2 plus whatever hook was used to start it. FreeNAS stores its persistent configuration over in /conf/base/etc, so adding the 3dm2 config files there will probably get you the reboot-survivability. Then you need to look at the installer and figure out how it's hooked it in to the system rc process.

Curious, though, *why* are you doing this? I haven't seen the 3dm2 tools to be very useful if you are using the 3Ware cards as a multiport SATA controller, which is probably the best use in FreeNAS...

 

[digidax]

I'm also interested in to get a solution for installing the 3dm2 gui tools. I'm trusting also more a hardware raid solution as my first choice. The best example was the update from 0.7 to 8.x. The hardware raided volumes have lost no data's. If I had a soft raid management under 0.7, a conversion to 8.x will not be possible.
To get running, 3dm2 it would be nice for me too.

How can I make /usr/sbin/ and /etc writable and presistant after e.g. a reboot for placing there the files?

best Frank

 

[William Grzybowski]

making it writeable: mount -uw /

And as jgreco said: FreeNAS stores its persistent configuration over in /conf/base/etc

 

[jazzpilot]

Did you ever get the 3ware 3DM2 web interface working with FreeNAS 8.0X?

Just curious if you ever got the 3DM2 management interface working with FreeNAS 8?

I am interested in installing the 3Ware 3DM2 management utility on a FreeNAS server.

I currently have a box with two 3Ware 9500s SATA controllers. The FreeNAS image is running on a 4GB USB flash drive.

The tw_cli command line interface is working.

Yesterday, I hacked the installation for the 10.2 3DM2 installer, installed 3DM2, and confirmed that it was working. However, once I rebooted the install was overwritten.

What is the best way to get the 3DM2 utility installed on the flash image?

 

[jet]

Did you ever get the 3ware 3DM2 web interface working with FreeNAS 8.0X?

Just curious if you ever got the 3DM2 management interface working with FreeNAS 8?

Hey

I was able to install this with a little bit of tweaking on Freenas 9.2.

downloaded http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.2-release/sysutils/3dm-2.11.00.019,1.tbz

extracted and put all my etc in /conf/base/etc
I edit all the conf files to point to /etc/3dm rather then /usr/loca..... because that stuff gets blown away on reboot
I edited the conf file in /conf/base/etc/3dm/ to suit my needs
added 3dm_enable="YES" to /conf/bace/etc/rc.conf

Started manually and it functioned great, crossed my fingers and rebooted and voila works great,sends emails,etc.

IMO this utility is a requirement, emails about your hard drives, perform battery tests,etc. Just more interfacing with your raid card than freenas does.


I upgraded (erm reinstalled) from freenas 7.2. in freenas 7.2 all I had to do was load the tarball in the web gui and freenas did everything else for me. This was a nice feature for installing "other" things on freenas boxes.

 

[dlavigne]

Please create a feature request at bugs.freenas.org requesting that this be added to base. Post the issue number here.

 

[jgreco]

Again, the question is WHY are you doing this? It implies you are using the card as a RAID controller rather than an HBA, which is how you should use it with ZFS. Do not use a RAID controller with FreeNAS. ZFS is your RAID controller.

 

[jet]

Again, the question is WHY are you doing this? It implies you are using the card as a RAID controller rather than an HBA, which is how you should use it with ZFS. Do not use a RAID controller with FreeNAS. ZFS is your RAID controller.

Well yes I am using the raid on my raid card for a few reasons, One it was preexisting raid array from freenas7,two the specs of the machine and the amount of ram I had zfs would never function reliably. If I had an amazing machine and somewhere to offload my 6 TB of data while I rebuild zfs......

 

[jgreco]

Fine, just making sure you were making informed choices (plus, clues for the audience).