smittytech
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I recently took over a lab that was only using local storage on all of it's ESXI Hosts. They did have two (2) MD3200i's with around 16TB of RAID-5 set up, but it wasn't in use. There is no budget for anything, but I managed to get "lucky" and get a StoreOnce 5250 with ~261TB via an asset re-utilization program available to us.
I was able to use the StoreOnce 5250 + one of our MS 2022 DC's to set up a lab share for the team. However, the NFS datastore that I've tried to create still isn't working properly with ESXi/vCenter (8.0U2). The datastore is able to connect to all of the hosts, but when I try to use or browse the datastore from vCenter/ESXI, I get a "not found" error. I've contacted HPE, but they said that the StoreOnce is not meant for what I'm using it as, so they will not support that type of configuration.
Therefore, I'd like to know what my other options are.
Can I use either of these systems with TrueNAS?
I previously converted an old Dell into a FreeNAS server in one of my other labs. I had to mess around with the firmware, but it ultimately was pretty painless. The StoreOnce connects to what is essentially a DL380 Gen10 server via SAS Cables. I will be setting up the network, hopefully next week, for 10GB, but it's presently connected via the 1GB ports. Can I overwrite the StoreOnce OS with either ESXI (w/ TrueNAS VM) or TrueNAS bare metal, and make the 261 TB available to it?
What about the MD3200i rackmounts? My understanding is that I'd need a server connected to them, via iscsi or similar, to use TrueNAS with them. I have two (2) spare R730XD's and one (1) spare R630. Not sure if those will work.
What are my options here?
I'm decent with servers/networking, but still pretty new to Storage. Any help is appreciated.
(I also have two (2) more StoreOnce 5250's in my other lab that I'd like to do something similar with).
I need the Storage for a Share Drive, and Datastores for VMware (possibly more in the future).
I was able to use the StoreOnce 5250 + one of our MS 2022 DC's to set up a lab share for the team. However, the NFS datastore that I've tried to create still isn't working properly with ESXi/vCenter (8.0U2). The datastore is able to connect to all of the hosts, but when I try to use or browse the datastore from vCenter/ESXI, I get a "not found" error. I've contacted HPE, but they said that the StoreOnce is not meant for what I'm using it as, so they will not support that type of configuration.
Therefore, I'd like to know what my other options are.
Can I use either of these systems with TrueNAS?
I previously converted an old Dell into a FreeNAS server in one of my other labs. I had to mess around with the firmware, but it ultimately was pretty painless. The StoreOnce connects to what is essentially a DL380 Gen10 server via SAS Cables. I will be setting up the network, hopefully next week, for 10GB, but it's presently connected via the 1GB ports. Can I overwrite the StoreOnce OS with either ESXI (w/ TrueNAS VM) or TrueNAS bare metal, and make the 261 TB available to it?
What about the MD3200i rackmounts? My understanding is that I'd need a server connected to them, via iscsi or similar, to use TrueNAS with them. I have two (2) spare R730XD's and one (1) spare R630. Not sure if those will work.
What are my options here?
I'm decent with servers/networking, but still pretty new to Storage. Any help is appreciated.
(I also have two (2) more StoreOnce 5250's in my other lab that I'd like to do something similar with).
I need the Storage for a Share Drive, and Datastores for VMware (possibly more in the future).