ESXI and freenas

[reb00tas]

I tried running freenas on ESXI host and Raw Device Mappings, so my hdd's is connected directly to the VM machine and it runs amazing. Same speed as if its a physical pc..

Before that...

I tried freenas but it was slow.

Then i installed openindiana and napp-it.

Same happens my raidz2 slow too. But then I noticed in the disk load interface in "napp-it" that 1 of my disks was loaded 100% and the others is idle(0%).
I replaced the disk that reported 100% load and speed goes from 10 MB/s to 110 MB/s netcard limit.
So something is wrong with that disk.

I want to know if there is any place in FREENAS I can see load on every single disk ? Like I can in Napp-it, cause that interface in napp-it lead me to the fail.

Well but I also want to tell people that ESXI with RDM (Raw Device Mappings) is working perfect. So now I can setup a system on 1 server instead of 2 server, and RDM does not reqiuere VT-d or anything, i also tried with enabling VT-d and give the freenas server direct access to my hdd's but that didnt work for me with onboard sata controller. Cause all sata ports was in family with intel controller.

 

[bollar]

Specifically which menu selection in napp-it?

Perhaps it's zpool iostat -v

 

[reb00tas]

Hmm in the top right corner is circles that indicate loads.

Green / yellow / red.

On CPU, ram, disks and so on. When i hold my mouse over the disk, I could see load on every single disk. And see 1 disk is loaded 100% and others 0%

I like freenas cause its easy to use. And i rand into some bugs with napp-it when destroyed and pool before i destroyed the "ZFS array"

I just want to be sure before I'll use freenas as my solution for my storage server, if it happens again a drive is failing but still running that I can find out wich one is taking my performance down to 10 MB/s

 

[bollar]

It looks like napp-it is using "zpool iostat -v 60 1"

I would agree that FreeNAS is easier to use than any Solaris system plus napp-it. There are some performance trade-offs, though.

What version of napp-it were you using? Gea just released 0.9

 

[reb00tas]

I used version 09 of nappit.

But I really love that disk load option the interface got, cause already in my "testing period" it helped me to find a major fail.