October 5, 2019

Preparing the Dell R720 for ZFS

Leave a Comment / DELL, FreeBSD, hardware, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / October 5, 2019

I have obtained a Dell R720 containing 10 x 400GB SSDs. The drives are connected to a RAID controller (H710P) which cannot do JBOD / IT mode. This means the drives are effectively hidden from ZFS, which is never good. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS Dell R720 SAS 9207-8i This post describes past work […]

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Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720

Leave a Comment / DELL, hardware / By Dan Langille / October 5, 2019

See also: Updating firmware etc on a Dell R730 I started writing this blog about a month ago. Last night, I did the firmware upgrade completely forgetting I had this draft post in my blog. Instead of reading this, I wound up doing something very similar, and pretty much lived tweeted it. After upgrading the

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