Please help with setting up my disks!

[jettech]

Hi all, I recently posted this thread about my options for migrating my data to my new hardware and I've been messing around with a LOT of options, but I did go ahead and copy all my data to a spare hard drive and migrate my physical storage disks into the new machine. This means I currently have:

• My old server (Windows on bare metal) with all my data on the spare hard drive, still fully functional
• My new server (Proxmox on bare metal) with my two storage drives, doing nothing

Now in case my first post didn't make it clear, type 1 hypervisors are very new to me. I've always preferred having a GUI available when possible because I don't see much point in every task taking a lot more effort to save a few percentage points of performance, so I typically only run lightweight Linux distros on low-spec hardware and don't fuss with it otherwise. BUT, I want to learn and I'm trying to find my way. I say this to let you fine folks know that I'm going to need some specific guidance to make things work. I've wiped away the VMs I set up at this point because I haven't gotten anything to serve a purpose yet.

I've ensured the drives are detected and in good shape after moving them to the new machine, and I used the Proxmox interface to wipe and initialize with GPT (see photo). I set them up as a mirrored ZFS pool (done right after the screenshot, that's why the usage section says "no"). I think I need to set up an SMB share to network-transfer all the data from my Windows server to this new one. Is this the right move, or do I need to pass them through to a VM and set them up in that VM? More importantly... how do I do any of it?

Feel free to poke fun at me for not knowing anything.

EDIT: adding that my use case is primarily Plex, NAS, and Minecraft servers. Happy to be advised on the best options.

 

[cave]

You have two disks as your data disks?
do run them as mdadm raid? as zfs mirror?
where is Proxmox installed? zfs?
your TrueNas Scale system is nested in a proxmox VM?
Your old server with data could provide a SMB share which could be mounted into one of your LXC Client Containers or VM's as SMB/CIFS share to migrate the data?

your SFF box has how many disks?
how have you set up your data storage?
are you mounting your disks with bind mount into your VM's?

so not an answer, but lots of questions. If you can answer them all, you will know how to continue.
Plex? i've heard Jellyfin is the new thing.