nathanbuck
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Hi everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
TL;DR - should FreeNAS be able to see anything stored on a zvol, or even the zvol itself (outside of management/config)?
I've come across a potentially interesting scenario with my FreeNAS > ESXi iSCSI setup, and I'm curious if anyone can shed some light.
On Blaise I have 2 pools, each has a single zvol (about 80% size allocation), which is shared via iSCSI (point-to-point ethernet, static IP) to Albert.
- The smaller faster pool/zvol contains VM configs and boot vmdks
- The larger slower pool/zvol contains the 'Capacity' vmdks for a couple of VMs (Apple Photos libraries etc)
FreeNAS can see some of the folders, vmdks etc on the smaller pool, but can't see anything on the 'Capacity' pool.
Running du -sh /* it shows a smaller usage than I expect too. My assumption is that FreeNAS wouldn't be able to see any files, as it's passing a block device straight to ESXi.
Really I'm just looking for a confirmation that the files I can see are heldover from the previous NFS setup (which at some point I rsync'd to the zvol), and not actually used by ESXi.
Thanks!
--- Background hardware info below here ---
** "Albert" ESXI 6.7u3 free licence **
Dell Poweredge T620- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670, 64GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Pool1: LSI SAS2008 HBA to 10x Dell 4TB 7200rpm SAS disks
Onboard 2x Intel I350 GbE (link-aggregated to switch)
PCIe 2x Broadcom BCM5720 GbE (1 connected directly to Blaise/FreeNAS)
** "Blaise" FREENAS 11.3-RC1 **
Dell Poweredge R320- Intel Xeon E5-1410v2, 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Pool1: Dell H310 mini (flashed to SAS2008) to 4x Dell 600GB 15000rpm SAS disks
Pool2: LSI SAS2008 HBA to 8x Dell 2TB SAS disks
Onboard 2x Broadcom GbE (1 management LAN, 1 connected directly to Albert/ESXi)
Long time lurker, first time poster.
TL;DR - should FreeNAS be able to see anything stored on a zvol, or even the zvol itself (outside of management/config)?
I've come across a potentially interesting scenario with my FreeNAS > ESXi iSCSI setup, and I'm curious if anyone can shed some light.
On Blaise I have 2 pools, each has a single zvol (about 80% size allocation), which is shared via iSCSI (point-to-point ethernet, static IP) to Albert.
- The smaller faster pool/zvol contains VM configs and boot vmdks
- The larger slower pool/zvol contains the 'Capacity' vmdks for a couple of VMs (Apple Photos libraries etc)
FreeNAS can see some of the folders, vmdks etc on the smaller pool, but can't see anything on the 'Capacity' pool.
Running du -sh /* it shows a smaller usage than I expect too. My assumption is that FreeNAS wouldn't be able to see any files, as it's passing a block device straight to ESXi.
Really I'm just looking for a confirmation that the files I can see are heldover from the previous NFS setup (which at some point I rsync'd to the zvol), and not actually used by ESXi.
Thanks!
--- Background hardware info below here ---
** "Albert" ESXI 6.7u3 free licence **
Dell Poweredge T620- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670, 64GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Pool1: LSI SAS2008 HBA to 10x Dell 4TB 7200rpm SAS disks
Onboard 2x Intel I350 GbE (link-aggregated to switch)
PCIe 2x Broadcom BCM5720 GbE (1 connected directly to Blaise/FreeNAS)
** "Blaise" FREENAS 11.3-RC1 **
Dell Poweredge R320- Intel Xeon E5-1410v2, 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Pool1: Dell H310 mini (flashed to SAS2008) to 4x Dell 600GB 15000rpm SAS disks
Pool2: LSI SAS2008 HBA to 8x Dell 2TB SAS disks
Onboard 2x Broadcom GbE (1 management LAN, 1 connected directly to Albert/ESXi)