MasterStur
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When you have dedup enabled on a volume exported via iSCSI to an esxi host, the volume capacity is not shown right. I seem to recall that it -does- display correctly when FreeNAS is virtualized, but my memory may be flaky. Essentially, volume available space is taken up until you hit 0, bam the drive crashes and after it is brought back up space is reported correctly at that time. This is just a no-go for actual real world use.
Now I understand why it doesn't report correctly, but is there any work around? With opendedup you could lie about volume size so esxi would see something like 10TB for a 2TB volume, but I'm not sure if that's possible to do here. I'd rather not lose iSCSI performance gains over NFS :(
Now I understand why it doesn't report correctly, but is there any work around? With opendedup you could lie about volume size so esxi would see something like 10TB for a 2TB volume, but I'm not sure if that's possible to do here. I'd rather not lose iSCSI performance gains over NFS :(
