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I have an R&D project using a new SuperMicro jbod with twenty four 3.5" drive slots, no RAID card, 128GB EEC RAM. Currently I am testing with eight 4TB SAS drives and three 120GB SATA drives.
I posted this issue before and did not find an answer, and I have way more questions and answers now.
FreeNAS 9.3 iSCSI share fails to be recognized by ESXi 5.5 and the answer may be inside one of the ESXi log files although I have not found the correct log or I have misinterpreted what I am reading. Does anyone know what log file(s) I should be looking into to see why ESXi 5.5 won't format the iSCSI share? The ESXi 5.5 Host Storage Adapter sees the iSCSI share. ESXi 5.5 Storage sees the iSCSI share but when I try and Add Storage from the configuration window I get right up to where the iSCSi share should be formatted but it hangs and quits after 10 minutes?
Update: I installed an older copy of FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 and in 1 hour I had a 13.8TB RAIDZ2 iSCSI share up and formatted by my ESXi 5.5 host. It works great by the way.
I am considering upgrading to FreeNAS 9.3 and I am wondering if my iSCSI share will make the transition?
Any and all help or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks :)
I posted this issue before and did not find an answer, and I have way more questions and answers now.
FreeNAS 9.3 iSCSI share fails to be recognized by ESXi 5.5 and the answer may be inside one of the ESXi log files although I have not found the correct log or I have misinterpreted what I am reading. Does anyone know what log file(s) I should be looking into to see why ESXi 5.5 won't format the iSCSI share? The ESXi 5.5 Host Storage Adapter sees the iSCSI share. ESXi 5.5 Storage sees the iSCSI share but when I try and Add Storage from the configuration window I get right up to where the iSCSi share should be formatted but it hangs and quits after 10 minutes?
Update: I installed an older copy of FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 and in 1 hour I had a 13.8TB RAIDZ2 iSCSI share up and formatted by my ESXi 5.5 host. It works great by the way.
I am considering upgrading to FreeNAS 9.3 and I am wondering if my iSCSI share will make the transition?
Any and all help or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks :)