Adding a real HDD to VM Windows server 2019 in Proxmox 7.1 V.E.

[mikekgr]

Dear Sirs,
I have a proxmox 7.1 ve installed on Dell PowerEdge R730 server, having hardware RAID controller (Dell PERC H730P Mini). I have set up two RAIDs virtual disk both consisting of two SAS disks in RAID 1. The 1st v.disk is the proxmox ve installation and the 2nd v.disk is a disk want to *exclusively* use in my Windows server 2019 ve, formated in NTFS for data storage.
My question is: what is the best way to make this happen, taking into consideration the disk I/O speed and throughput performance? I need the best 2nd v.disk performance inside the Windows server 2019 ve
Please consult me, because I am quite newbie in virtualization and Proxmox.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

P.S. I have seen already, that I can passthrough the v.disk to ve and I know how to do it, also I saw the other way to mount the v.disk partition to e.x. /mnt/win_storage and then to pick it up in the ve. Is there other way?

 

[Dunuin]

You could use disk passthrough of your raid array: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)
That way you can skip an additional storage/filesystem layer between the raid array and the guests filesystem.

 

[mikekgr]

You could use disk passthrough of your raid array: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)
That way you can skip an additional storage/filesystem layer between the raid array and the guests filesystem.

Thanks a lot for your reply.