FreeNAS with vCenter and 10GB Ports

[marlonc]

Ok, great, thank you for clarifying. So in example 1, would that be considered one pool?

Secondly, I believe it would be best practice to have multiple vdev's (example 1) instead of shoving all the disks in one vdev because if you lose 2 disk that are mirrored in 1 vdev, I am SOL, agree?

 

[Zredwire]

Ok, great, thank you for clarifying. So in example 1, would that be considered one pool?

Secondly, I believe it would be best practice to have multiple vdev's (example 1) instead of shoving all the disks in one vdev because if you lose 2 disk that are mirrored in 1 vdev, I am SOL, agree?

In Example one, yes you could add those 3 mirrored VDEVs to one Pool.
I am also pretty new to Freenas so I may be mistaken but I don't think you can add more than one mirrored set to a VDEV. I believe you have to make a separate VDEV for each mirrored set.

 

[marlonc]

Thanks. i know you can add 3 disks for a 3-way mirror to 1 vdev but you only have one drive for usable storage if a person wasnt confident about a 2 way mirror.

I will create my 3 vdevs now...be right back