Reasonable to switch from Unraid to Proxmox?

[stuoningur]

Hi all,
I currently run a NAS/Server with Unraid with an AMD 5700g, 32GB RAM and 4x4TB drives.

More out of curiosity/boredom than a real need, I'm looking to switch and think Proxmox with the VM/Container focus is interesting, but I still want to use some sort of NAS setup, but I need a reality check if it even makes sense.

I would install Proxmox on a small Nvme and create a datastore (probably zfs) with the four hard drives. To get the NAS part I would probably install OMV or maybe Truenas in a VM and create a big enough virtual disk on the storage and assign it to the VM. Does that make sense to do it like that or is there a better way to do it?

Thanks!

 

[Dunuin]

Why not buy a HBA card, create a Unraid VM, then PCI passthough that HBa with the 4 HDDs into the Unraid VM and continue to use your Unraid as a NAS, but virtualized as a VM. With a passthroughed HBA card the Unraid VM could directly access the physical HDDs.

 

[bzb-rs]

Without the actual function that you are missing, idk?

But with the setup of proxmox, you could bypass the storage drives to truenas or unraid and let the system decide how to use the storage drive is also an option. This leaves only the data drive to be managed by proxmox.