Everything worked initially but following a reboot of the second PC (hosting VSan Free) a random iSCSI device fails each time with the fault "Not Licenced"
Having scoured the knowledgebase and things such as "Free Vs Paid comparisons" I can find no indication of why six iSCSI shares work perfectly and a random one on each boot does not. I would prefer to export single drives as they will work much better with DrivePool (only a single drive spins up when data is accessed, less heat, less noise, less wear and tear on some rather old drives).
I am also planning to add a new LSI SAS adapter inside the second PC to add a further 5 old hard drives (and replace the horrible, slow generic Chinese SATA controller card) which would make a total of 12 iSCSI shares to be exported. I am also likely to get two second hand 10Gbit network cards to improve the shared drive speeds. Redundancy is not an issue as I use SnapRAID on the main PC and it includes the iSCSI shares in its parity calculations, currently I have redundancy to allow for up to 2 drives to fail. Obviously this is not great with a random iSCSI drive failed on each boot! These two PCs (host and targets) are the only drives using iSCSI on my network, the main PC then shares the pooled drives via Samba for rest of the network.
Is there a hidden limit I'm unaware of?
I also saw in the documentation that I can export a raw drive rather than use an image file on a drive using the Disk Bridge module, but I am struggling to find documentation or powershell scripts that would have allowed me to set this up instead. Any suggestions here are also more than welcome!