velkrosmaak
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I know, I know. It's insane using USB disks in a RAIDZ setup. It's just for testing, I promise.
So i'm running ESXi 6.5, with a FreeNAS 11 VM with 6 USB2/3 disks connected. The VM OS is set to 'FreeBSD 64 bit' as per the freenas docs. I try to add a USB2 and USB3 interface, and ESXi moans that the OS doesn't support USB3. Googling seems to suggest that FreeNAS _DOES_ support USB3.
The issue is, I can't see any of those disks under Storage > View Disks.
I can see errors along the lines of USB_SHORT_XFER at boot, which made me suspect this is a USB issue. Do I just need to tell ESXi to pretend it's a different OS so I can use USB3 properly?
Do I just take the disks out of their USB enclosures and get another SATA interface? Should I just get a Zip drive? (hah)
Any help is really appreciated! Moving to FreeNAS from Windows Server Storage Spaces, with which this was weirdly simpler.
So i'm running ESXi 6.5, with a FreeNAS 11 VM with 6 USB2/3 disks connected. The VM OS is set to 'FreeBSD 64 bit' as per the freenas docs. I try to add a USB2 and USB3 interface, and ESXi moans that the OS doesn't support USB3. Googling seems to suggest that FreeNAS _DOES_ support USB3.
The issue is, I can't see any of those disks under Storage > View Disks.
I can see errors along the lines of USB_SHORT_XFER at boot, which made me suspect this is a USB issue. Do I just need to tell ESXi to pretend it's a different OS so I can use USB3 properly?
Do I just take the disks out of their USB enclosures and get another SATA interface? Should I just get a Zip drive? (hah)
Any help is really appreciated! Moving to FreeNAS from Windows Server Storage Spaces, with which this was weirdly simpler.