Good day to any and all ----
My goal is a big ol storage pool used as a iscsi target for web,media services and misc. storage but i hit a snag while setting it up and can't seem to find the documentaion on exactly what disks a storage pool can use and not use especially with hardware raid.
The scenario is a 18 bay NAS server with two LSI-9550SXU-8LP RAID controllers installed. The OS is on 2 1TB disks partioned on the RAID and mirrored in windows. The system boot volume is set at 100GB with the rest of the two disks empty in the RAID BIOS setup.
There are 3 other drives 2-2 TB and 1-1TB all in a storage pool. The problem is when i go to add the unallocated space on the 2 system disks I get the error:
It is the same when addding one disk or two even though they show up in the primordial list.
So I guess I don't under stand what is going on. Those two partitions should be just blank disks as far as the system is concerned but they don't seem to be. There must be some partition mapping non-magic going on that the pool service can't handle.
Anyway a link to some docs on this would be nice if there are any out there and a work around if that is even posssible would be peachy too.
In the mean time i guess i will just use those two as shared regular disks for backups as i move stuff around so they don't go to waste. here is the set up as is. Just as an aside I have tried converting them to differant types also and then adding to the pool.
Best regards all