Hi all,
I have a HP DL380p G8 LFF (12x 3.5" drives), and run esxi 7.0 on it, which boots from the integrated p420i from a mirror of 2 ssd's (not zfs, just a straight RAID volume). I pass through a Dell perc h310 to a TrueNAS 12.0-u1 vm which works really well. Currently I have both of the backplane connectors connected to the two ports on the h310, and so have to connect the two ssd's that hold the esxi boot volume with sas-to-sata cables to the sas connectors on the mainboard and mount the ssd's internally using a PCI disk mounting bracket. Of course for airflow inside the chassis this is not great so I want to ask if I can connect one of the Backplane connectors to the internal p420i and the other to the perc so that the two esxi ssd's can also be mounted in caddies and accessed from the front of the chassis... I tried this very briefly but was weirded out because suddenly all the TrueNAS disks showed up in the p420i's rbsu. I did not not up all the way to see if truenas saw its disks still as I got scared. Is this expected? Is this ok to do or am I lucky my zfs pool survived this experiment?
Many thanks in advance,
Kai.
I have a HP DL380p G8 LFF (12x 3.5" drives), and run esxi 7.0 on it, which boots from the integrated p420i from a mirror of 2 ssd's (not zfs, just a straight RAID volume). I pass through a Dell perc h310 to a TrueNAS 12.0-u1 vm which works really well. Currently I have both of the backplane connectors connected to the two ports on the h310, and so have to connect the two ssd's that hold the esxi boot volume with sas-to-sata cables to the sas connectors on the mainboard and mount the ssd's internally using a PCI disk mounting bracket. Of course for airflow inside the chassis this is not great so I want to ask if I can connect one of the Backplane connectors to the internal p420i and the other to the perc so that the two esxi ssd's can also be mounted in caddies and accessed from the front of the chassis... I tried this very briefly but was weirded out because suddenly all the TrueNAS disks showed up in the p420i's rbsu. I did not not up all the way to see if truenas saw its disks still as I got scared. Is this expected? Is this ok to do or am I lucky my zfs pool survived this experiment?
Many thanks in advance,
Kai.