I've progressed through the article on b3n.org about setting up FreeNAS as a VM. Ive given it 2 dedicated cores and 16 GB of dedicated RAM.
I followed all the recommendations as best I could. I have the following setup:
supermicro x10 srh-clnf4
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 (12 core w. hyperthreading)
LSI 3008 (onboard) flashed to IT mode.
64 gb ddr4 2400 ram
6 wd red x 2 TB each (setup in raid10)
100 Gb Intel s3700 x2 (mirror) as ZIL
I installed embedded vsphere 6.5, the most recent release
Also installed FreeNAS Build FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3 (e1497f269)
I followed this guide as best as I could, and worked very well up to this point. But you'll see here, my device is shown as "normal, degraded."
As an aside, I have to hit rescan/refresh on the iscsi software adapter followed by a refresh to see it as a device. But more importantly, I see the device as "normal, degraded." I'm not sure if this is due to not having multipathing. I have no external storage (its all attached to the mobo), so I don't see the point in having a second path, unless its to make this degraded message go away.
Any idea if I should troubleshoot this further, or its just a quirk of iscsi/multipathing? Attached are the snapshots of my FreeNAS iscsi share configuration.
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.17 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.17 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18300-cc09faaf704d4f3fdb5a97318bb1c0e4.jpg)
I followed all the recommendations as best I could. I have the following setup:
supermicro x10 srh-clnf4
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 (12 core w. hyperthreading)
LSI 3008 (onboard) flashed to IT mode.
64 gb ddr4 2400 ram
6 wd red x 2 TB each (setup in raid10)
100 Gb Intel s3700 x2 (mirror) as ZIL
I installed embedded vsphere 6.5, the most recent release
Also installed FreeNAS Build FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3 (e1497f269)
I followed this guide as best as I could, and worked very well up to this point. But you'll see here, my device is shown as "normal, degraded."
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.14.02 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.14.02 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18293-d7910f6eb84ba978d25318e12be51a3b.jpg)
As an aside, I have to hit rescan/refresh on the iscsi software adapter followed by a refresh to see it as a device. But more importantly, I see the device as "normal, degraded." I'm not sure if this is due to not having multipathing. I have no external storage (its all attached to the mobo), so I don't see the point in having a second path, unless its to make this degraded message go away.
Any idea if I should troubleshoot this further, or its just a quirk of iscsi/multipathing? Attached are the snapshots of my FreeNAS iscsi share configuration.
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.14.02 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.14.02 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18293-d7910f6eb84ba978d25318e12be51a3b.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.20 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.20 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18294-77725be8d96ceffe22675cf4594350c4.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.44 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.44 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18295-000debe71fab99fa8640fe8e1f2da23f.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.49 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.49 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18296-83e9ea6c665c41b4ea33cd699cd5181a.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.56 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.37.56 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18297-5fe5545e6aa236f4fdcb6e09ad893587.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.06 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.06 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18298-459645cf92104e9020ed39cf505e7a84.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.12 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.12 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18299-4e4c5cfd8c4ea6e325cf9551a62ce00c.jpg)
![Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.17 AM.png Screen Shot 2017-06-04 at 12.38.17 AM.png](https://www.truenas.com/community/data/attachments/18/18300-cc09faaf704d4f3fdb5a97318bb1c0e4.jpg)
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