BUILD HDD LED's

[mlinton]

Hey all!

I am having a very minor (perhaps insignificant) issue with my second FreeNAS machine. Although it’s purely cosmetic, it’s driving me up the wall. I feel like I’m missing something stupid.

My first box is a Supermicro 16Bay Server X7DBE 2x Intel Xeon L5420 32GB, LSI M1015 (flashed to IT). I have several 2 TB Toshiba drives in there and the whole things works great, I love it! -- This machine has been running for around a year or so.

However, I REALLY wanted to try to virtualize it. So, pushing through all experience and advice against it – I set off on my mission!

My VMware machine is an HP DL360 G6 with 2 Quad Core (HT) 2.93 Ghz, 144 GB of RAM and two drive cages. The first drive cage is going to my HP on-boad controller (P800, I think?), and I use that for my ESXi Data stores (all hard drives are 2.5in, 10K SAS)

The second cage is going to an LSI M1015 (also flashed to IT mode). I installed FreeNAS as a VM, passed through the LSI card and everything is working nice and peachy! I have my SMART status coming through to the VM, and best I can tell – no virtual layers between the drive and the VM.

Ready for the issue?! The darn LEDs on my Hard drives to not work correctly. They flash a few times when the VM boots – But they do not blink when active or anything.

I tried swapping the LSI cards between the Supermicro and the HP box, but I got the same result, so I don’t think it’s the LSI card. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[Tywin]

Have you tried running FreeNAS directly on the hardware (not on top of your ESXi host) to see if the LEDs work properly?

 

[mlinton]

I have not. I will see if I can get some of the other machines moved off and try that during down time..

Thanks,
Mark