Adding Pool

[TiDoDO]

hello guys ! im trying to add my 40tb virtual drive into freenas, but after 2 hours of PLEASE WAIT, disk wont go into the pool. i've tried 2 times but same results.
the CPU usage is pretty high 60 %. if this can help ?

 

[Ericloewe]

Can you elaborate? Are you importing a pool backed by a single 40 TB virtual disk? Creating a new pool?

 

[TiDoDO]

hi ! thank you for your anwser, im creating a new pool, brain new installation.

this is a virtual drive on a h310 PERC, raid5, mounted IN a datastore in VMWARE that i've created(40tb)

thanks !

 

[Ericloewe]

Any particular reason you're doing it like that instead of leaving RAID in ZFS' much more capable hands?

 

[HoneyBadger]

I'm surprised that a RAID5 on the cacheless PERC H310 didn't just implode immediately upon creation. In my opinion, the presence of that "feature" at all is a cruel trick by Dell.

@TiDoDO - can you provide us with some full system specifications and your desired use case? The H310 is fantastic if it's loaded with LSI firmware and lets ZFS do the "RAID" logic.

 

[TiDoDO]

ZFS will fix it. i was afraid of zfs for VEEAM backup, but looks fine at the moment.
thanks !