ZFS prefers iSCSI disks over local ones ?

[Ben RUBSON]

> On 03 Oct 2017, at 17:28, Markus Wild <fbsd-lists at dudes.ch> wrote:
> 
>>> Any way however to set rotationrate to 7200 (or to a slightly greater value (*)) as well for iSCSI drives ?
>>> I looked through ctl.conf(5) and iscsi.conf(5) but did not found anything related.  
>> 
>> Sorry, (*) or to a slightly lower value (of course...).
>> I forgot to mention that as the initiator, target is a FreeBSD 11.0 server.
> 
> We use this in our ctl.conf to ensure vmware doesn't consider the iscsi volumes to be ssd drives:
> 
> [...]
>        lun 1 { path /dev/zvol/data/volumes/zvol1 ; option rpm 10000 }
> [...]

Markus, thank you very much for the tip !
I'll test this as soon as my production will be fully online.
Perfect ! :)

Best,

Ben