R730

Adding in new NVMe cards and sticks – and replacing two SSDs

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I notice I also worked with some SSDs at the end of this post – I have since amended the title of this post. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 Today I removed two existing NVMe cards, each with a 1TB stick on it. Those sticks were added to these cards: If you want the same hardware, you can use these links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are all […]

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r730-01: the drive replacement plan

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This post is mostly for my benefit, so I can keep track of my plan for adjusting space. It doesn’t contain much of educational value. One recent day, I powered off r730-01 and took inventory of the 16 drive bays. A short overview: [17:36 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data01 5.81T 2.84T 2.97T – – 1% 48% 1.00x ONLINE – data02

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Dell R730 – The session has timed out waiting for verification of the certificate – slot bifurcation details – plus NVMe plans

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Today I was trying to access my Dell 730 (r730-01) via the remote console. I failed. Twice. First and expected failure First, this was usual and expected. It’s been a problem both at home and at work. It is the inability to access the console via https using the hostname This is what I see: I can get in via IP address though. Second and new-to-me failure Next, after logging in via IP

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Adding in a stand-by spare drive for ZFS on FreeBSD

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This is a follow up to Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD from two months ago. The replacement for the returned drive has arrived and after sitting for many weeks on my coffee table, it is installed in r730-03. Here it is, as found in /var/log/messages – this host is a Dell R730 which has drive cages allowing me to insert the drive without powering off the host. Jun 30 16:17:15

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Making sure I remove the correct drive

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Yesterday, I discovered I had removed the wrong drive from a zpool. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 Today, the zpool replace command has completed. Next, I carefully chose the right drive to pull from the drive bays. Status This is the zpool status, just before it completed: After it completed: I see gpt/SG_ZHZ16KEX is no longer in the zpool. Not trusting myself, I checked this way: [20:33 r730-03 dvl ~] % zpool status

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Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD

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But first, there’s more Right after asking “Anyone running zfsd? Did you do anything in particular to configure it? I just added my first hot-spare to a zpool.”, ivy told me “noooooooo don’t use hot spares!! Keep a cold spare or at least an online device not attached to a pool. otherwise your zpool will randomly decide to attach its hot spare due to a temporary cabling issue or something like that. the

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Dell R730 – moving disks from front drive bay to PCI slots in r730-03

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I’ve been seeing these types of errors for about 4 weeks now. I ordered a replacement drive. When it arrived, I realized I had no free drive bays. When a drive is still functional, I prefer to leave it in the host to retain zpool integrity. Instead, I will add the new drive in, run the zpool replace command, and when completed, remove the faulty drive. I decided to order more Icy Dock

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