albrandwood
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I have a business critical FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 setup ...
Dell R710 48Gb ram + LSI 12 bay SAS enclosure with 7x 2TB Raid-Z3 + SSD for Zil + SSD for L2ARC. we are getting close to 80% capacity, so I want to increase the capacity by migrating the existing pool to a new 11x 2TB Raid-Z3 using a second SAS enclosure.
(a) can I add external SAS + drives enclosures without shutting down FreeNAS
(b) am I best migrating the data using snapshots or Replication (and if so, could anyone give me the correct CLI commands?)
(c) I'd like to recycle the two SSD for the new Raid-Z3 (The SSD are internal to the R710, as they are SATA no SAS). I'm guessing that they would need to be removed from the existing zpool, and added to the new zpool? or wait till the old zpool is removed/destroyed, then re-add them to the new zpool?
(d) when finished, can I remove the existing drives from system without shutting down FreeNAS? (I plan on using the existing enclosure for a couple of 15krpm Raid-10 pools).
Thanks
@shley
Dell R710 48Gb ram + LSI 12 bay SAS enclosure with 7x 2TB Raid-Z3 + SSD for Zil + SSD for L2ARC. we are getting close to 80% capacity, so I want to increase the capacity by migrating the existing pool to a new 11x 2TB Raid-Z3 using a second SAS enclosure.
(a) can I add external SAS + drives enclosures without shutting down FreeNAS
(b) am I best migrating the data using snapshots or Replication (and if so, could anyone give me the correct CLI commands?)
(c) I'd like to recycle the two SSD for the new Raid-Z3 (The SSD are internal to the R710, as they are SATA no SAS). I'm guessing that they would need to be removed from the existing zpool, and added to the new zpool? or wait till the old zpool is removed/destroyed, then re-add them to the new zpool?
(d) when finished, can I remove the existing drives from system without shutting down FreeNAS? (I plan on using the existing enclosure for a couple of 15krpm Raid-10 pools).
Thanks
@shley