SCSIraidGURU
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I have a HP DL360e Gen8 server with 12 cores, 96GB of RAM, P222 SAS RAID controller with two RAID 1 1TB arrays, 4 x 1 TB 7.2K SAS drives. The server has Gbps NICs. I have VMWare 6 U3 installed on the SD card on the motherboard. I want to build an external datastore for backups using iSCSI. I have an old workstation box that I can put a SATA RAID controller in it to do RAID 1+0 on with WD Black drives. How can I use FreeNAS to do this?
I don't need performance like in my data center I run. The RAID 1 arrays on the HP DL360e Gen8 are fast. I use eSATA on my workstation with VEAAM to backup the VMs at 106 MB/s. I am just looking for extra storage to move backups to.
This server is for my Cisco CCNP certification. I have Cisco Virtual Lab on it running in a Linux VM. I have two WordPress servers: One on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04.5, I am working on my CompTIA Linux+ certification. VMWare 6 Essentials Kits 6 CPU license to backup everything. This weekend I am doing a Syslog server. I did two RAID 1 arrays each as a datastore.
https://wp.scsiraidguru.com is my technical web site.
I was told about FreeNAS from a Fortinet engineer helping me with my Fortinet 60E firewall. He mentioned FreeNAS and other cool things to try.
I don't need performance like in my data center I run. The RAID 1 arrays on the HP DL360e Gen8 are fast. I use eSATA on my workstation with VEAAM to backup the VMs at 106 MB/s. I am just looking for extra storage to move backups to.
This server is for my Cisco CCNP certification. I have Cisco Virtual Lab on it running in a Linux VM. I have two WordPress servers: One on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04.5, I am working on my CompTIA Linux+ certification. VMWare 6 Essentials Kits 6 CPU license to backup everything. This weekend I am doing a Syslog server. I did two RAID 1 arrays each as a datastore.
https://wp.scsiraidguru.com is my technical web site.
I was told about FreeNAS from a Fortinet engineer helping me with my Fortinet 60E firewall. He mentioned FreeNAS and other cool things to try.