Need advice on additional storage for a windows vm

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I have a server with 2x 15k hardware raid for proxmox + vms, of which there are some linux + 1 windows 7 kvm vm.

I have added 2x 2tb sata drives. I want these to be accessible from within the windows vm to be used for low activity file storage, as windows drives, and to use windows software raid to make one disk visible. The new disks do not need to be visible to any linux vm's.

An alternative would be to soft raid them from within proxmox if this is possible, as long as the resulting disk is visible from the windows vm.

Any pointers on where to start with this and what to research would be appreciated.
 
you can format the disk just with a filesystem, e.g. ext3, mount on the host and add as "Directory" storage for KVM guest. and use it for raw disk image files.

or you can use LVM.

or very simple, just add the physical disk to your KVM windows by adding the following to your VMID.conf file:

Code: 
virtio5: /dev/sdbX

replace sdbX with your device name (also adapt virtio5: according to your needs).

as a reference, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model
 
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