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Create A RAID 10 Array Using FreeNAS

This document explains how to create a RAID10 array using FreeNAS by first creating two RAID1 arrays from disks, then mirroring and striping those RAID1 arrays to form the RAID10 array. The steps include adding disks to FreeNAS and formatting them as software RAID, creating the two RAID1 arrays, formatting those arrays, then creating a RAID0 stripe across the RAID1 arrays to build the final RAID10 array.

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Create A RAID 10 Array Using FreeNAS

This document explains how to create a RAID10 array using FreeNAS by first creating two RAID1 arrays from disks, then mirroring and striping those RAID1 arrays to form the RAID10 array. The steps include adding disks to FreeNAS and formatting them as software RAID, creating the two RAID1 arrays, formatting those arrays, then creating a RAID0 stripe across the RAID1 arrays to build the final RAID10 array.

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Create a RAID 10 Array Using FreeNAS

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Perry Whittle 25th February 2010

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Contents
1 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT....................................................................................3 1.1 2 3 AUDIENCE ................................................................................................................3

STORAGE ARRAY TYPES.............................................................................................3 CREATING THE ARRAY ................................................................................................4

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PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT


This document explains how to create a RAID10 array using a FreeNAS Open source NAS\SAN box. This can be either a physical or virtual node. The example here utilises a VMWare ESX4i virtual machine. This array may then be pre sented over iSCSI transport to build a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 cluster. For the purposes of this document the following apply

RAID OS Node

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Operating System A host computer

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AUDIENCE
The document is intended for engineers wishing to discover more about storage and RAID arrays. It is not expected that the reader is familiar with the FreeNAS OS or storage arrays but expects that FreeNAS is already installed and configured.

STORAGE ARRAY TYPES


RAID arrays are sets of redundant di sks, hence the name RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). RAID comes in various forms which have expanded since the appearance of more intelligent disk controllers. Common arrays are; RAID 0 striped Data is striped across disks, no fault tolerance. RAID 1 mirrored Data on disk is mirrored to a second disk RAID 4 Striping with parity One disk is dedicated for the parity bits, data is striped data across the remaining disks in the array. RAID 5 Striping with parity Stripes data including the parity bits across all disks in the array (distributed parity) RAID6 Striping with Parity (dual parity)

Extra parity redundancy over RAID5 RAID 0+1 Striping with mirror Striped set which is then mirrored RAID 1+0 Mirror with striping Mirrored disks which are then striped
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CREATING THE ARRAY


Open the FreeNAS management page and go to Disk Management as shown below. We are going to be using the 4 disks 2GB in size.

Add each disk in turn and be sure to click the drop down list box Preformatted file system and select Software RAID as the format type. Click Apply changes .

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Using the 4 disks you just added, create the 2 RAID1 arrays (remember RAID10 arrays are mirrored and then striped). Shown below is the first RAID1 array, remember to Create and initialize the array . Click Apply changes before continuing.

RAID1 arrays created! Both arrays should show the COMPLETE status.

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Format each of the RAID1 arrays from the Format menu shown below.

Format them as Software RAID as shown below.

Now go to Disks then Software RAID from the menu and select RAID0 as shown below. You will see the two RAID1 arrays previously created. Now we need to create a stripe across these arrays.

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After adding the stripe and clicking Apply changes you should see the following.

Now format your new array with the appropriate file system (UFS or ZFS). Add this as an iSCSI target and present to your cluster node!

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