I have been running drive pool several years with no issue's on a 2012 Essentials build so to start, thanks for a great product.
I am in the process of upgrading this server to 2012 R2 Standard for several reasons battling with some short comings of essentials v1 unrelated to the file server - I have already gotten the new OS installed as well as drive pool and everything looks good but since I am going through this process I am also in the process of looking into other solutions such as unRaid or freenas or sticking with Windows / drivepool. I plan on running a couple physical VM servers (Dell R710's) and want to use iSCSi for these - freenas has this baked in, unRaid I don't think can do it at all, but Windows Server 2012 R2 can setup iSCSi targets for these VM servers.... sooooooooo....
Are there any issue with setting a VHD iSCSi target inside a pool? if there are issue's, what are they?
Would it better to have a drive not in the pool serve this purpose? if so why?
In reverse are there any reasons not to use an iSCSi drive in a pool?
freenas is very tempting as it is it's own OS not very vulnerable to attacks but is heavy on the hardware requirements due to having to have the same drives, recommended ECC ram, 1GB per TB etc so I feel like it's more for an enterprise where extreme up time would be the worry but for Home, Small business it almost more of a toy to play with and I cannot see a compelling reason other than Drivepool having to be "hosted" by Windows not to just stick with what I have if iSCSi stuff presents no issue's - thus my questions.
I did search iSCSi in the forums and the results did not provide answers so if this has been asked, apologies.
1 side note question unrelated to iSCSi this one on the SSD Optimizer plugin - I installed and set up a 240GB SSD as "cache" and the rest of my pool drives are set to archive but when I copy a fairly large file say 5GB and watch performance area in drive pool, it shows drive activity, just not on the SSD - this puzzles me.
Question
talex
Hi all,
I have been running drive pool several years with no issue's on a 2012 Essentials build so to start, thanks for a great product.
I am in the process of upgrading this server to 2012 R2 Standard for several reasons battling with some short comings of essentials v1 unrelated to the file server - I have already gotten the new OS installed as well as drive pool and everything looks good but since I am going through this process I am also in the process of looking into other solutions such as unRaid or freenas or sticking with Windows / drivepool. I plan on running a couple physical VM servers (Dell R710's) and want to use iSCSi for these - freenas has this baked in, unRaid I don't think can do it at all, but Windows Server 2012 R2 can setup iSCSi targets for these VM servers.... sooooooooo....
Are there any issue with setting a VHD iSCSi target inside a pool? if there are issue's, what are they?
Would it better to have a drive not in the pool serve this purpose? if so why?
In reverse are there any reasons not to use an iSCSi drive in a pool?
freenas is very tempting as it is it's own OS not very vulnerable to attacks but is heavy on the hardware requirements due to having to have the same drives, recommended ECC ram, 1GB per TB etc so I feel like it's more for an enterprise where extreme up time would be the worry but for Home, Small business it almost more of a toy to play with and I cannot see a compelling reason other than Drivepool having to be "hosted" by Windows not to just stick with what I have if iSCSi stuff presents no issue's - thus my questions.
I did search iSCSi in the forums and the results did not provide answers so if this has been asked, apologies.
1 side note question unrelated to iSCSi this one on the SSD Optimizer plugin - I installed and set up a 240GB SSD as "cache" and the rest of my pool drives are set to archive but when I copy a fairly large file say 5GB and watch performance area in drive pool, it shows drive activity, just not on the SSD - this puzzles me.
Thanks ahead of time.
Tom
Link to comment
Share on other sites
5 answers to this question
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.