I have a DS4246 connected via a single IOM6 to a TrueNAS CORE instance running on a barebones dedicated system I built from an old PC, but i’m only using about half the drive bays currently. It’s running on dedicated hardware because I had difficulties with SCSI passthrough when it was virtualized on my virtualization server. I would really like to store a very large database on disks in the remaining bays, but I want the database (mongo) to run on a different, more powerful server I also have in my rack.
Is there anyway to split up the disks in the shelf to be used by different servers? Like if I add a second IOM6? I only have a basic knowledge of these disk shelves in general. Any help is appreciated.
I had it setup as a virtual instance at first, and for some reason I kept running into problems - though I don’t really remember what they were. I will probably end up going back to that for simplicity sake.
edit: I think the problems i had were with hosting jail services on the already virtual instance of TrueNAS. I moved away from that completely and just use it as a simple NAS now, so maybe I won’t run into those problems again.