Installation of Freenas 8 on Dell Poweredge server

[maroonmachine11]

Sorry if this has already been posted, but does anyone know how to install FreeNas 8 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650? Thanks!

 

[louisk]

I haven't tried on anything quite that old. What problems are you running into?

 

[maroonmachine11]

Thanks Louisk for the reply. I haven't installed it yet. Just wondering how to install it on a server with a raid card. If there was anything special I needed to do.

 

[peterh]

Yes, remove the raid card.
besides, isn't that a x86 box ? then zfs is out.

 

[louisk]

You can either remove the raid card, or create a collection of raid0 arrays, one for each drive. I had to do this with a perc because FreeNAS wouldn't see it as a JBOD/passthrough.

If its only 32bit, you're out of luck for ZFS. With the cost of a 2850 or 2950 being so cheap, I'd probably get something a little newer, although the 2950 will still only go up to 32G.

 

[maroonmachine11]

With the raid0 arrays would I still have the hot-swap capabilities? Yeah, I would love to get a newer one but this one was given to me. I'd love to be able to utilize it.

 

[louisk]

Yes. You just have an extra step of dealing with the raid controller to create a new RAID0 when you replace a drive. Then you deal with ZFS in the normal way.

 

[maroonmachine11]

Ok, thanks for the input louisk.