Author Topic: Help/Ideas to ADD HDD in a software raid (1) for file sharing  (Read 1107 times)

kcurtis

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Quick history and what issues we have now:
When our Windows server 2003 crashed I decided to switch to Zentyal to run the domain and Freenas for our files. Because I had to use older PCs I made 3 Zentyal servers to make sure the domain would always be up if one crashed. Most of the time everything works great, but at times some workstations can loose their log in to the raid on the FreeNas when accessing with the host name. They can access fine with the IP if the NAS but need to reboot to get access back. I need to stop or minimize this problem so my thoughts are to move the file storage to a 4th Zentyal. I now have this server (domain4) running, I see all users and groups just as expected and it is time to add the drives for the file shares. I have 4 3t drives I would like to make in to 2 raid1 drives.  How the questions.

1) Is this going to fix my authentication issues?

2) How hard will it be in add a software raid to the box and be able to monitor the health