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NV+ won't boot with new harddrive in
One of my drives started throwing errors a couple weeks ago, but I wanted to let it go as long as possible to see if the error count would keep climbing or not. Once I saw the errors were going to keep going, I pulled out a new HD (it was still in the plastic sleeve, completely unused previously), and installed it. Now my NAS won't boot while the new drive is, or at least it becomes unresponsive at some point during or after the boot process.
If I do a hard reset on the unit while the drive is in, I get an Unexpected reboot email alert, and usually a Resync recommended, etc. Then when I try to access my NAS, nothing. I can ping it, and the web interface comes up to the "There is a problem with this website’s security certificate." point, but when I try to continue past that, it just hangs there. However, if I take the new drive out and hard reset it, it comes up, and I can access everything.
So, my question is...what do you guys think the problem could be? A bad HD controller, or could the NAS not like this HD, even though I have another one of the same model in the NAS already, working for the past year or so? The new drive shows up when I plug it into a dock connected to one of my PC's, so it's working.
Any help would be appreciated.
If I do a hard reset on the unit while the drive is in, I get an Unexpected reboot email alert, and usually a Resync recommended, etc. Then when I try to access my NAS, nothing. I can ping it, and the web interface comes up to the "There is a problem with this website’s security certificate." point, but when I try to continue past that, it just hangs there. However, if I take the new drive out and hard reset it, it comes up, and I can access everything.
So, my question is...what do you guys think the problem could be? A bad HD controller, or could the NAS not like this HD, even though I have another one of the same model in the NAS already, working for the past year or so? The new drive shows up when I plug it into a dock connected to one of my PC's, so it's working.
Any help would be appreciated.
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- Yes you can use either as a datastore. The 316 would be good for a small number of VMs.
Obviously the 516 is suitable with more VMs and the 716x with its 10GBase-T can be used with lots more again.
If you were to use it as a datastore in a production environment then it would be important to get some pre sales advice to pick the best model for your needs.
There are some settings changes recommended when using the NAS for a VM datastore.
You may wish to consider using RAID-10.
Disabling features such as Sync Writes (an option in 6.1.9) if using iSCSI would help performance.
Using Thick LUNs would be preferred.
You may also wish to disable snapshots for the share or LUN you use for the datastore.
It does depend on how much you value performance vs protection for your data.
Regardless of which features you use, if your VMs are important to you then you should backup the VMs.
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