My plan is to set up a "spanned volume" in Windows 2008.
One of the disks to span together is a VMware Virtual SCSI disk with sector size 512Bytes
The other is a iSCSI-target sitting on my NAS with ZFS RAIDz.
At the moment the spanning process does not complete, as W2008 complains, that the spanned drives MUST have the same sectorsize.
And this is the problem: W2008 SystemInformation reports 4096Bytes as the sectorsize !
Changing this setting for the iSCSI-Target to 512Bytes per Block under andvanced settings does not help - SystemInformation does report 4096Bytes anyway!
What can I do ?
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sector size for iSCSI-disk
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drnicolas
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sector size for iSCSI-disk
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Grast5150
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Re: sector size for iSCSI-disk
when you created the virtual disks before adding to the pool, Did you select advanced format? if so, that is probably why showing a sectorsize of 4096. I would destroy the pool and recreate with out the advanced format option selected. This suggestion assumes your 4K disks have backwards 512 sector compatibility. This will result in slower performance on the 4k disks.
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