Steven Sedory
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We're spinning up a server with the following:
Dell R730xd, 16x 3.5 Drive Bay model - 12x front backplane, 4x mid backplane
14x 4TB NLSAS
256GB RAM
2x 10Core 2620 v3
FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4
Right now, we have a LSI 9300-8i plugged in, both SAS ports plugging into the front backplane. Everything works fine. When I plug in our second HBA both HBA's see all the drives, but once in FreeNAS, there's no sign of multipathing under Volumes as explained in the docu.
I soon realized I may have jumped to the conclusion that this was a safe setup. I called LSI/Avago and they said their HBA's are not meant for multi path configuration and are not supported for it.
That being said, would this setup still be safe for fault tolerance? I can't seem to find a clear answer.
Thanks in advance.
Dell R730xd, 16x 3.5 Drive Bay model - 12x front backplane, 4x mid backplane
14x 4TB NLSAS
256GB RAM
2x 10Core 2620 v3
FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4
Right now, we have a LSI 9300-8i plugged in, both SAS ports plugging into the front backplane. Everything works fine. When I plug in our second HBA both HBA's see all the drives, but once in FreeNAS, there's no sign of multipathing under Volumes as explained in the docu.
I soon realized I may have jumped to the conclusion that this was a safe setup. I called LSI/Avago and they said their HBA's are not meant for multi path configuration and are not supported for it.
That being said, would this setup still be safe for fault tolerance? I can't seem to find a clear answer.
Thanks in advance.