Simcfc73 Posted November 22, 2012 Posted November 22, 2012 Evening, I recently purchased a QNAP 8TB backup device and a new server for my DPM backups... decided to go for DPM 2012 (horrible GUI btw) Never set up iscsi before or luns etc so would like some advise,. I have the connection between the R2 and the QNAP but need to set up the LUNs, I haven't done anything with the disks as I know they need to be raw. I did try setting up a LUN with all the disk space but R2 moaned about it being over 2TB. How have you guys set the disks up, if I set up 4 x LUNs as 1.8TB what happens if one of the disks fails? Sorry if this is obvious but bit green at all this.
jamesfed Posted November 22, 2012 Posted November 22, 2012 Our DPM 2012 install has got access to a 6.6TB local storage drive - set the drive to GPT (compared to MBR) and you won't get any issues with 2TB.
ChrisH Posted November 22, 2012 Posted November 22, 2012 Our DPM 2012 install has got access to a 6.6TB local storage drive - set the drive to GPT (compared to MBR) and you won't get any issues with 2TB. You beat me to it! My secondary DPM server is currently being served 5 TB over ISCSI from a HP Microserver running Freenas.
jamesfed Posted November 22, 2012 Posted November 22, 2012 You beat me to it! My secondary DPM server is currently being served 5 TB over ISCSI from a HP Microserver running Freenas. Nice setup We've got a iSCSI QNAP box running the backup (WSB) for a primary of ours - just fire and forget once its up and running.
Simcfc73 Posted November 22, 2012 Author Posted November 22, 2012 On the QNAP it only gives me an option to format the discs as EXT4. Looks like I need to do a bot more reading.
RobFuller Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) Take a look at this guide from QNAP, its for Hyper-V but explains how to get LUNS setup and iSCSI http://files.qnap.com/news/pressresource/product/How_to_set_up_the_QNAP_Turbo_NAS_as_an_iSCSI_storage_for_Microsoft_Hyper-V_and_as_an_ISOs_repository.pdf also this is a good guide to setting up MPIO http://files.qnap.com/news/pressresource/product/How_to_connect_to_iSCSI_targets_on_QNAP_NAS_using_MPIO_on_Windows_2008.pdf Rob Edited November 23, 2012 by RobFuller
Simcfc73 Posted November 23, 2012 Author Posted November 23, 2012 Thanks for these replies. Are you guys setting the QNAP up as raided then attaching the LUN as a GPT or as individaul disks?
jamesfed Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Thanks for these replies. Are you guys setting the QNAP up as raided then attaching the LUN as a GPT or as individaul disks? One single LUN with all the storage on RAID5 in our case - Server 2008 R2 then does the GPT stuff.
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