There are a ton of reasons why, but they're covered in depth elsewhere on the forum so I'm not going to bother repeating them all again. The H710 is a great RAID card, but it's just not a good choice for FreeNAS. While I understand that you're setting up a test environment on a budget, I do want to point out that you could pull the H710, sell it on eBay, and probably purchase 2 LSI SAS2008 based cards (IBM M1015, LSI 9211-8i) for the amount you get for the H710. Are there any other settings I need / should do with this config?.What is recommended RAID level configuration for this? I was planning on setting this up with a RAID 5 to make the most the available disk space.Should disable the caching on the RAID controller or leave it on?.Are there any pros and cons doing it either way?.Should I create 1 large VD and present to FreeNAS or should I carve the available disk up multiple smaller VD’s?.My question now is how I should configure the RAID to be the least evil configuration? :)Īlso, the servers do have iDRAC that I will use for monitoring the hardware for failures. I also know this is a bad practice to do it this way, but since this is just a test environment that I will use for learning purposes I thought I would get away with it. This means that I will use the H710 RAID controller that is included in the server. Since I don’t have much money to spend on additional hardware I would like to use what I have in the servers. I would like to replace my current slow iSCSI solution with the new FreeNAS server and in the same time learn about configuring and managing a fibre channel network. I have just inherited 3x Dell R720 that I have configured the following way.Ģ x ESXi 6.5 that are connected to a shared iSCSI storage.ġ x Free server that I want to install FreeNAS on and share storage through FC. First of I’m new FreeNAS so please don’t flame if I say something wrong.
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