Category: Storage
Investigating an issue FreeNAS drive
I’ve had a drive in my FreeNAS server for a long time now with a Current Pending Sector error. As it and no other errors (see below) have incremented I’ve been ignoring it. ID# ATTRIBUTE_N... Read More
NetApp vfiler 7-mode to SVM C-mode migration
Migrating 7-mode vfiler into C-mode Assumptions The source vfiler is only serving NFS v3 This process will attempt to use the read/write mode as there are no LUNs The project will not attempt to migra... Read More
Migrating 7-mode data into C-mode – Preparation
Preparing the Destination C-mode system Make sure SSLv3 is enabled: system service web show It was suggested to enable FIPS however the Unified Manager couldn’t then monitor the system. Check th... Read More
NetApp 8.3.1 SVM DR failure
I was trying to setup a SVM DR relationship of a recently migrated 7-mode vfiler and it would never initialise. Needed some help troubleshooting the issue but the key command to use on the target clus... Read More
NetApp’s new Advanced Disk Partitioning
We finally got ourselves an 8.3 C-Mode Snapmirror target device; well that’s the only mode available in 8.3. A relativly small FAS2554 with 6TB drives. The proposal was to use the new feature in... Read More
NetApp C-Mode Cluster creation issues
Converting a 7-Mode 8.2.1 3220 to a C-mode switchless system seemed to be going well until I needed to add the second node. The A head is running fine with the basic configuration and when running clu... Read More
Failing Drive FreeNAS 9.3
This morning I received an email warning that one of my drives is problematic: Device: /dev/ada9, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors So checking the device from the box it doesn’t look goo... Read More
FreeNAS and Crashplan
Lots of instructions out there but this is what I needed to do to get it working with FreeNAS 9.3 and Crashplan 3.6.3_1 add tunable: variable = linux_load value = YES type = loader reboot install cras... Read More
Home NAS – FreeNAS
At the moment I use a 4 bay Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2 with four 2GB disks in their X-RAID2 setup. It’s basically RAID 5 now but it auto expands as you add disks or swap disks for larger capacity. ... Read More- 2 of 3
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