Well added more functionality to both NAS systems. Yesterday I added the second Dell Perc H310 to one NAS system plus added two more 2 TB SAS 6 GB/s drives. Tonight after a very long session working on some clusters at work I finished up my second NAS adding another H310 plus identical drives as the first system.
The only thing I didn’t do on the second NAS I did yesterday on the first NAS was to create new storage and another iSCSI target. Yesterday I moved virtual data to the first NAS that I had on the second NAS. Tonight I didn’t much feel like creating additional storage groups; I’ll do that on another date soon.
I now have the capabilities to talk to all sixteen SAS slots in my chassis. I could have went many routes like another expander, funky cables but adding the second set of SAS controllers was the most efficient and direct solution believe it or not. I would have liked to been able to daisy chain one section of the backplane to the other slots but I didn’t see that option. Plus the price was right for the controllers from an EBay dealer so this closes this chapter, for now I can just add storage as needed and start to migrate off of my 3 GB/s drives.
Soon will update to the new FreeNAS point release I think there was some items in the release notes I could benefit from, I’ll have to look again. I will also look into the latest updates of XenServer and then its diving back into looking into different CMS/Blog for my sites.
