I hope someone is going to say that the answer to this problem is obvious...
Scenario: FreeNAS running under ESXi 5.0 (so I can run other VMs on the same box, obviously).
Storage: One SSD, containing the FreeNAS OS as a VM. Six 3TB SATA disks, each containing two vmdk virtual disks, inside each of which is a ZFS virtual disk and file system, managed by the FreeNAS VM, and containing two zpools of ~12TB and ~3TB raidz striped across all six disks.
It's not an ideal setup, I know, so I plan to...
Identifying which disk is in a VMDK
Scenario: FreeNAS running under ESXi 5.0 (so I can run other VMs on the same box, obviously).
Storage: One SSD, containing the FreeNAS OS as a VM. Six 3TB SATA disks, each containing two vmdk virtual disks, inside each of which is a ZFS virtual disk and file system, managed by the FreeNAS VM, and containing two zpools of ~12TB and ~3TB raidz striped across all six disks.
It's not an ideal setup, I know, so I plan to...
Identifying which disk is in a VMDK