High Available Storage HAST in FreeNAS

[Aimar]

Dear all,
We are experimenting a FreeNAS installation in a commodity hardware and it looks fine so far. We have installed FreeNAS 9.3 in one node and create windows shares. The next experiment setup requires a High Available storage installation using HAST. Based on the official Freebsd website, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-hast.html, the setup of the second node and failing over was successful. On the other hand, using CARP, the failover script enables to export the pool to the passive [secondary] node which becomes active [primary], but shares for example cannot be seen after a failover [from GUI using VIP]. They still remain in the failed node! Disks are also imported. From shell, directories and data can be seen and accessed. However shares were not imported! Is that needed to instruct a separate importation of the shares in the failover script as well ? any hint will be appreciated !

Thanks !

 

[cyberjock]

Sorry but making FreeNAS function as HAST is completely unsupported and only really workable by very intricate hacking. If you are looking for High Availability from your storage appliance please purchase a TrueNAS server that has HA.

Thanks.