Greetings,
Current Drives: 10 x 3 TB
Proposed Drives: 20 x 3 TB
Current Utilization: About 15 TB
Original Hardware Config: LSI 9211-8I HBA, 8x drives plugged into it via two SFF-8087 breakout cables, then the remaining 2 drives plugged directly into the motherboard.
New Hardware Config: Purchased a second LSI 9211-8I, plus two HP 24 port SAS Expanders. 10 Drives are plugged into each SAS Expander via SFF-8087, then each HBA is dual linked (two 8087-8087's) into it's own dedicated LSI 9211-8I. I booted everything and all drives are detected without any configuration on my end, which is awesome.
Kicker: I have 3 x 6 TB drives striped together, I can easily move all my data off my existing 15 TB /share and onto the stripe temporarily (yes, its worth the risk to me) if I need to completely empty my /share to reconfigure it for a stripe of Z2's. However, if I can avoid doing this (for time/risk's sake) I would rather avoid it obviously. :)
Question: I purchased 10 more 3 TB drives (20 now total) and wish to create an additional RAID-Z2 configuration, and stripe it with my first one, thus doubling my capacity and increasing performance some. What is the correct procedure to do this? I've been reading ZFS guides and it seems pretty straight-forward from the CLI, however I'm heeding the warnings of not doing stuff in FreeNAS on the CLI behind the WebGUI's back if you can accomplish the task within the GUI.
If anyone could point me to the right article (google-fu has failed me) I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks and have a wonderful day!
Current Drives: 10 x 3 TB
Proposed Drives: 20 x 3 TB
Current Utilization: About 15 TB
Original Hardware Config: LSI 9211-8I HBA, 8x drives plugged into it via two SFF-8087 breakout cables, then the remaining 2 drives plugged directly into the motherboard.
New Hardware Config: Purchased a second LSI 9211-8I, plus two HP 24 port SAS Expanders. 10 Drives are plugged into each SAS Expander via SFF-8087, then each HBA is dual linked (two 8087-8087's) into it's own dedicated LSI 9211-8I. I booted everything and all drives are detected without any configuration on my end, which is awesome.
Kicker: I have 3 x 6 TB drives striped together, I can easily move all my data off my existing 15 TB /share and onto the stripe temporarily (yes, its worth the risk to me) if I need to completely empty my /share to reconfigure it for a stripe of Z2's. However, if I can avoid doing this (for time/risk's sake) I would rather avoid it obviously. :)
Question: I purchased 10 more 3 TB drives (20 now total) and wish to create an additional RAID-Z2 configuration, and stripe it with my first one, thus doubling my capacity and increasing performance some. What is the correct procedure to do this? I've been reading ZFS guides and it seems pretty straight-forward from the CLI, however I'm heeding the warnings of not doing stuff in FreeNAS on the CLI behind the WebGUI's back if you can accomplish the task within the GUI.
If anyone could point me to the right article (google-fu has failed me) I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks and have a wonderful day!