Ideas on using a 6110..?

[forbiddenera]

Hey,

So, I've used FreeNAS before with great success, haven't done a clean install in a while and I guess now we're TrueNAS. Looks nice. Still BSD. Yay. ZFS nice.

So, I spin up an old POS Cisco server (literally, the IMPI uses FLASH.. and old-school Java) for some storage since it had some drives in it and a dual 10gb sfp+ nic. Figured I'd use it as a storage server, mostly to handle the EMC6110 that's below it.

I haven't dug too deep into the 6110 yet (w/ type12 controller) - I hoped to this weekend, plugged it in and turned it on - but I think the management interface might be turned off..so can't really do anything.

From what I can tell, generally the 6110 would crap out some iSCSI shares for something like VMware (or in my case, Xen/CitrixHypervisor) to use.

I'd prefer to manage the 6110 and it's drives as part of a ZFS pool from TrueNAS. My past experiences would use an HBA over FC to the big disk monster which could be used sort of as normal drive but this just has straight 10gb Ethernet - which I was considering hooking directly to the 2nd port on the TrueNAS server even.

Basically I wanted to have TrueNAS be my main storage server, allowing me to create and manage iSCSI/NFS/SMB shares for different purposes (SR's for Xen, SMB shares for office/engineering crap) with the storage backed by partly the available bays in that server but mostly from the 6110, which I would fill up with drives as needed.

Anyone have experience with one of these diskmonstores?

I'm sure I'll get some ideas once I get the management online and see what can be done but if it only has iSCSI, then, is it possible to add an iSCSI volume to a ZFS pool (that will then get shared over iSCSI or NFS or SMB)?

 

[forbiddenera]

I don't see an edit button - meant to say Type 14 controller, (orange, 1x10gbE, 1xSFP+, 1x10/100 mgmt)

 

[forbiddenera]

So,

I figured I'd try.. I spun up a vm TrueNAS on my Xen box with 20gb pool and shared pool via iscsi

I then followed https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/freenas-as-an-iscsi-initiator.22098/#post-462100 and rebooted

Creating a new pool on the first (baremetal) trueNAS I can see /dev/da0 which is an iSCSI device. Yay. Only issue is that it's only 16KiB..? Nay!

 

[forbiddenera]

Bleh, not sure why I can't edit my posts. Actually, for some reason the extent that was shared was only created as 16KiB so that checks out.

Although now that I've erased that, created a new one, I'm getting a weird issue - when the baremetal truenas connects to the vm'd one to mount it's iscsi share, I get a ping time out nop error for iscsi on the vm console and *both* control panels for TrueNAS lock up completely (although the VM machine doesn't have high cpu usage / can still be interacted with on the console)

weird!?