Making physical drives available to VM's and Network

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Simba

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I recently installed Proxmox and am now, for the first time, setting foot in VM-land, so bear with me..

I started by installing Proxmox on my server, which for a large part I use as a NAS for other boxes in my home (among which a PC, some laptops and a XBMC home entertainment pc). I'm now researching Proxmox to see if I can deploy it in a small enterprise environment in october.. that's the background..

My setup:

* 300GB SATA, Proxmox VE installed here, out-of-the box partitioned by the installer as a LVM. Tempspace for Proxmox, appliances, images and ISO's are all placed here.
* 1TB (3x) and 3TB (1x) SATA-II drives. On the previous system these were mounted as \data1-4 and made available through SMB (and experimentally NFS, but I ended up not using that much.)

On my previous system things were easy, it had samba running and in the samba configuration file I configured the access to these disks.
My idea was that I'd install Proxmox, and run a Fileserver appliance do this thing, but apparantly it can't see those disks as they are outside it's protected VM environment.

I could ofcourse install samba on Proxmox itself, but I have a gut feeling that's not really how you'd supposed to run a VM environment. So my question is, is it possible to make these drives available to a VM, and how??

What other scenario's would be possible?
I'm reading about things like OpenFiler, Virtio and iSCSI..

Thanks guys!
 
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