hello,
I am picking up a server later today which will have access to 6 drives. I have 4x 5TB and 2 SSDs.
I wanted to use proxmox on the server and either pass through disk management to an LVM running Rockstor or OMV.
From my reading I have determined that best practice would be to keep the host free to serve VMs.
My plan was to create a RAID-10 array out of the 4 5TB drives, which I could use for RAW storage, CIFS/NFS share etc.
My confusion comes from with deciding what to do with the SSDs. Ideally they would be used to store VMs or I was thinking of using them as cache drives for the 5TB storage drives.
Also, would it be best for me to just leave the 2 SSDs in stripe mode and install proxmox there (instead of my original idea to put it on USB stick)
or split them up, use 1 SSD for proxmox installation, and the other for cache or VMs ?
How would I best plan this out based on the drives that I currently have? The server only has 6 bays and I don't plan to use more than 6 drives.
Thanks for any advice.
I am picking up a server later today which will have access to 6 drives. I have 4x 5TB and 2 SSDs.
I wanted to use proxmox on the server and either pass through disk management to an LVM running Rockstor or OMV.
From my reading I have determined that best practice would be to keep the host free to serve VMs.
My plan was to create a RAID-10 array out of the 4 5TB drives, which I could use for RAW storage, CIFS/NFS share etc.
My confusion comes from with deciding what to do with the SSDs. Ideally they would be used to store VMs or I was thinking of using them as cache drives for the 5TB storage drives.
Also, would it be best for me to just leave the 2 SSDs in stripe mode and install proxmox there (instead of my original idea to put it on USB stick)
or split them up, use 1 SSD for proxmox installation, and the other for cache or VMs ?
How would I best plan this out based on the drives that I currently have? The server only has 6 bays and I don't plan to use more than 6 drives.
Thanks for any advice.