Best practice for my configuration

[Dindio]

Hello everyone!

I'm using a Dell R510 with 6tb Raid 5 and a spare SAS 15k hd under Perc H700 raid controller.
I was planning to run proxmox with vms for the following services:
1) Plex on ubuntuserver + other minor services
2) Home Assistant
3) some fun with other OS
I want also use the 6tb raid for media/data files to share to Plex VM and over the network (samba is enought for now).

So I was using the 500gb 15k sas drive for proxmox and vms, and mounting the 6tb raid as a folder under ubuntuserver vm, to access the files from plex and to share them using samba.
I did serveral try (I am completely noob by the way) and I was pretty happy with the result.
So I deleted ubuntuserver VM to redo a new, fresh installation. That formatted also the raid loosing all data (why??).
I was wandering if I'm doing something wrong and there's a better solution for what I want archive.
I don't see the point to get rid of the Perc card just to use ZFS, it seems a waste of money but maybe I'm wrong. And stuff like FreeNAS demands too much RAM.

Any suggestion?

 

[Dunuin]

How do you store your media? If you delete a VM it will destroy all virtual disks used by that VM. So if you use virtual disks to store your media your media will be destroyed too.

 

[mira]

How did you pass the disk through to the VM?
Do you by any chance have the config still available?

 

[Dindio]

I used this guide here https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)
Is there a better way?

Tnks

 

[Dunuin]

Then your data should still be there but doing a restore you will loose your passthrough so you need to add the passthrough again.
I personally always add the used command to passthrough my disk to the notes page of the VM. So after a restore I just need to open the nodes section and copy+paste the command to the hosts console to add passthrough again. And best you define the disk using "/dev/disk/by-id/yourDisk" instead of "/dev/sdX" so you don't passthrough the wrong disk by accident.

 

[Dindio]

nope, they just disappear. Also as I can see in proxmox storage summary the raid is empty now.