Installing proxmox on UCS C220 M3

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MetalParsley753

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I recently got a cisco UCS C220 M3 and I would like to install proxmox on it. It has a UCSC RAID SAS 2008M-8i with RAID 0/1/10 (SLOT-MEZZ) and an Onboard SCU Storage( it has 2 modes: LSI SW RAID and Intel RSTe). I also have 6x900GB SAS drives. I plan on running some form of NAS on it. My plan is to install proxmox on one of these drives and then use the rest for the NAS. What would be the best way to configure the RAID conntrolers to deal with this.
 
Install Proxmox on 2 of the disks in a RAID1. Configure the other 4 disks in a ZFS storage config. Install Open Media Vault in a VM, mount that storage into it to make the NAS.
 
for the purposes of this conversation, disk passthrough and jbod is the same thing. and yes, you can and should use it.

As for "best way," it really depends on what you want your "nas" to actually do. I am never a fan or running storage that is dependent on a different "compute" device within the same hardware; that intedependency (especially if you intend to run VMs on the NAS storage) makes an overly complex, difficult to support environment. PVE is a very capable storage control platform and may be used as a foundation for network services, and using it this way is perfectly ok; if you want to have a dedicated NAS management experience, however, consider running a NAS distro instead (Truenas would work well here and even support VMs.)
 
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