Hello Community,
I'm testing a new system prior installing in production. During testing i'm running into some unexpected behavior and am trying to diagnose what could be the cause.
I've installed FreeNAS onto 2 SSD's in a mirror, in bios mode from a USB drive. After the installation completes, i remove my USB drive and the machine boots into FreeNAS fine. To test the mirroring of the boot drives, i then physically remove 1 of the 2 boot drives from the machine and turn it on. Once the machine posts it displays the message: "This is a FreeNAS data disk and can not boot system. System halted".
Next i reinstall the missing boot drive into the machine, restart and now it always says that same error message. My expectation was that FreeNAS would boot even if i remove (simulating a failed drive) 1 of the 2 boot drives.
Note* During the installation process i noticed 4 line items for my 2 drives. I suspect this is because i have 2 HBA cards connected to the same backplane for redundancy. Taking this a step further in the Avago HBA configuration utility i've ensured that both my cards have the correct primary and alternate boot drives specified. I did find it odd that during the install it displayed 4 drives instead of 2 but again i'm thinking the installer read my 2 drives, once from each HBA card separately (my best guess).
As a second test I tried to install FreeNAS selecting all 4 drives show on the install prompt (a error i believe) that displayed that failed.
What could be wrong? Post installation i was expecting to remove 1 drive and have FreeNAS boot up fine, and then swapping drives to ensure the reverse also works. In the FreeNAS web GUI i saw the mirror was healthy in the Boot Status.
Here is the hardware i'm using:
Any Ideas?
I'm testing a new system prior installing in production. During testing i'm running into some unexpected behavior and am trying to diagnose what could be the cause.
I've installed FreeNAS onto 2 SSD's in a mirror, in bios mode from a USB drive. After the installation completes, i remove my USB drive and the machine boots into FreeNAS fine. To test the mirroring of the boot drives, i then physically remove 1 of the 2 boot drives from the machine and turn it on. Once the machine posts it displays the message: "This is a FreeNAS data disk and can not boot system. System halted".
Next i reinstall the missing boot drive into the machine, restart and now it always says that same error message. My expectation was that FreeNAS would boot even if i remove (simulating a failed drive) 1 of the 2 boot drives.
Note* During the installation process i noticed 4 line items for my 2 drives. I suspect this is because i have 2 HBA cards connected to the same backplane for redundancy. Taking this a step further in the Avago HBA configuration utility i've ensured that both my cards have the correct primary and alternate boot drives specified. I did find it odd that during the install it displayed 4 drives instead of 2 but again i'm thinking the installer read my 2 drives, once from each HBA card separately (my best guess).
As a second test I tried to install FreeNAS selecting all 4 drives show on the install prompt (a error i believe) that displayed that failed.
What could be wrong? Post installation i was expecting to remove 1 drive and have FreeNAS boot up fine, and then swapping drives to ensure the reverse also works. In the FreeNAS web GUI i saw the mirror was healthy in the Boot Status.
Here is the hardware i'm using:
Supermicro 4U 24 Bay X10QBi 4x E7-4820 V2 2Ghz 32-Cores 128GB -- Chassis 848XTS-R3240BP -- Backplane: BPN-SAS3-846EL1 (https://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/?mlg=0) -- Motherboard: X10QBI (https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10QBi) 2x HBA Cards (LSI SAS 9300-8i) 2x PNY SSD's (Boot Drives) 8x WD RED SSD's (SSD Storage Pool for speed) 6x WD RED HDD's (HD Storage Pool for capacity) |
Any Ideas?