I have an HP N40L Microserver just purchased and so far on a single disk (just to test) have done the following:
I can access the web GUI for FreeNAS but cannot add volumes/disks as the physical disk does not show up. I added a second physical disk but still cannot access this from FreeNAS.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I might not even have got the concept of how to do this correctly?
Do I need to provision the second disk within VMware somehow?
Do the disks need to be included in the install of FreeNAS?
I this because there is no disk space left as it's all taken up by the VMware datastore?
As you can see, I'm a bit lost. My ultimate aim would be to have the one server with 4 or 5 physical disks with ESXi booting from flash disk, and FreeNAS installed as a VM with ZFS volume/s that ESXi can use for VMs and also use the ZFS volume/s for network file shares for Windows and Linux. So that if a drive fails I can pop in a new one and all be ok. I'm not sure if this is possible, or if I would need to investigate some kind of iSCSI set up?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Tim.
- installed bare-metal VMware ESXi on USB flash
- created the ESXi datastore on it's default settings (full disk)
- created a new FreeBSD 64bit VM with 2GB virtual disk (as per the FreeNAS minimum install requirements)
- Installed FreeNAS 8 from the ISO to the above VM
I can access the web GUI for FreeNAS but cannot add volumes/disks as the physical disk does not show up. I added a second physical disk but still cannot access this from FreeNAS.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I might not even have got the concept of how to do this correctly?
Do I need to provision the second disk within VMware somehow?
Do the disks need to be included in the install of FreeNAS?
I this because there is no disk space left as it's all taken up by the VMware datastore?
As you can see, I'm a bit lost. My ultimate aim would be to have the one server with 4 or 5 physical disks with ESXi booting from flash disk, and FreeNAS installed as a VM with ZFS volume/s that ESXi can use for VMs and also use the ZFS volume/s for network file shares for Windows and Linux. So that if a drive fails I can pop in a new one and all be ok. I'm not sure if this is possible, or if I would need to investigate some kind of iSCSI set up?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Tim.