We have an iXsystems FreeNAS Certifiied server. It has 24 bays, of which currently 12 are filled with 6 TB disks.
These comprise 2 RaidZ2 sets of 6 disks each.
They're in one storage pool, primarily sharing one large dataset.
We want to expand the pool size. When we bought the FreeNAS, this was the plan, iXsystems said this would be fine. Now our managed services provider is telling us that it is not safe to expand a pool. They say we can add disks, but the added disks will need to be a separate pool and we'll need to segment our data across the two pools.
Is this true that there is no safe way to populate our 12 free bays and use the disks to expand our current pool?
We were planning to add 12 more 6 TB disks, once again divided into two RaidZ2 sets.
Also, I did Google and read things for quite a while, but did not find good resources. Can anyone point me to a guide to expanding zpools? I couldn't find anything explaining when and how you can expand a pool, or any guides using the FreeNAS GUI tools to expand a pool... can it be done via GUI, or does it have to be done via command line?
Thanks in advance for any help.
These comprise 2 RaidZ2 sets of 6 disks each.
They're in one storage pool, primarily sharing one large dataset.
We want to expand the pool size. When we bought the FreeNAS, this was the plan, iXsystems said this would be fine. Now our managed services provider is telling us that it is not safe to expand a pool. They say we can add disks, but the added disks will need to be a separate pool and we'll need to segment our data across the two pools.
Is this true that there is no safe way to populate our 12 free bays and use the disks to expand our current pool?
We were planning to add 12 more 6 TB disks, once again divided into two RaidZ2 sets.
Also, I did Google and read things for quite a while, but did not find good resources. Can anyone point me to a guide to expanding zpools? I couldn't find anything explaining when and how you can expand a pool, or any guides using the FreeNAS GUI tools to expand a pool... can it be done via GUI, or does it have to be done via command line?
Thanks in advance for any help.