I’m ready to downsize. I’m going to replace knew with r730-03. The former has 20 5TB drives. I don’t need all that space now. I’ll settle for 12TB instead. The two new drives arrived today: [23:39 r730-03 dvl ~] % grep da2 /var/run/dmesg.boot da2 at mrsas0 bus 1 scbus1 target 2 lun 0 da2: Fixed […]
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I might need to create another zpool. Or perhaps move a drives/zpool from one host to another. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 Background I am combining two hosts (slocum and r720-01) into one new host (r730-01). I have been moving jails from those hosts. I have an ansible playbook for creating new entries in /etc/jail.conf.d/.
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This is the R730 known as R730-03. This post has been replaced by a newer post. Note the number of cores. I see a package build server…
This is the host I’ve been talking about. Adding this entry to /boot/loader.conf will turn off MFI and enable MRSAS instead. hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=”1″ Then you’ll see expected device names for drives, such as da0 instead of mfisyspd0. This will be done later. The HBA installed in this host is supported by the FreeBSD mrsas driver. The
R740? What R740? I don’t have an R740. But I do have an R730. Please try that link instead. Thanks to Mr Barrow for pointing out this error.
I brought home three Dell R730 after saving them from ewaste. Two of them have 8x 3.5″ drive bays. One has 8x 2.5″ drive bays, with with for another 8. This is the one I’m considering for use. I have a fourth R730 in the basement, but I don’t know those specifications, and it already
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EDIT: I’m updating this post with new information, I’m missing some photos – they are on my other laptop… EDIT: If you get stuck with older firmware which cannot use existing DELL infrastructure, give https://updateyodell.net a try. It helped me leapfrog along the upgrade path. I started reading Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720
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HEADS UP: this is still under review. Until this notice is removed, I recommend not using this. I have a Dell R720 at an ISP. The iDRAC connection is filtered, by the ISP, and is accessible only from a small number of IP addresses. Sure, this talks about a web proxy. It works. So does
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