Choose one (or two) of the local storage disks plugged into your SATA ports (do not add a disk on your LSI controller). Under configuration, storage, click add storage. I usually install it to a USB drive plugged into the motherboard’s internal header. The free version of the hypervisor is here. You can boot into an Ubuntu LiveCD and use hdparm, instructions are here: You can also do this after after VMware is installed by passing the LSI controller to an Ubuntu VM (FreeNAS doesn’t have hdparm).
If you’re going to use an SSD for SLOG you can over-provision them. Optional: Over-provision ZIL / SLOG SSDs. If you decide to run P16 or P19 on FreeNAS 9.3.1 which is what I’m doing (not that I am recommending this, I just think it’s the least bad option), this will result in a firmware driver mismatch amber warning light in FreeNAS, however you can un-check that alert to mute the warning.ģ. I really can’t recommend any of those options, they’re all bad. So the options are to run P20 which is too new to put in production, run P16 or P19 with a mismatched v20 driver, downgrade the driver to v19, or don’t upgrade to 9.3.1. As of today () Supermicro has only released up to P20.00.02.00 for my LSI2308 so I presume that’s the buggy version that shouldn’t be used. I don’t know of anyone that has verified the issues were fixed. I did a little research and found a few references to P20 having an initially buggy release, but the issues may have been fixed in P20.00.04.00 which was released in May 2015. It has been widely used and very stable in the OmniOS/Napp-It community, and several people running FreeBSD 10 found that P19 was stable after first trying P20. I’m surprised FreeNAS didn’t go with P19. On storage systems I like to see firmware in use for more than a year before upgrading to it.
I think it’s too aggressive to be moving to P20 firmware. However, P20 is widely known to have bugs and performance issues, especially with fast SSDs I am surprised by the P20 move. UPDATE on Firmware: As of FreeNAS 9.3.1 the LSI drivers have been upgraded to v20 and now FreeNAS recommends the P20 firmware. Here’s instructions to flash the firmware: FreeNAS 9.3 wants P16, which you can get from Supermicro: I’m using DC S3700s because that’s what I have, but this doesn’t need to be fast storage, it’s just to put FreeNAS on. Also get one (preferably two for a mirror) drives that you will plug into the SATA ports (not on the LSI controller) for the local ESXi data store. The LSI2308 has 8 ports, I like do to two DC S3700s for a striped SLOG device and then do a RAID-Z2 of spinners on the other 6 slots.
SuperMicro X10SL7-F (which has a built in LSI2308).
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