setting up RAID disks as storage

[digininja]

I've just installed Proxmox for the first time and I'm trying to get my head around storage. My server has two disks (excluding the system disk) that I want to set up as RAID 1 and dedicate to a single machine. Am I better setting the RAID up in Proxmox then giving the VM a disk as normal or is there a way to pass the two disks through to the VM and allow it to set up RAID?

Which ever way is better is there a good guide for it? I know how to setup RAID on the Linux command line but not sure if I should do that or use the web GUI.

 

[dietmar]

The suggested way is to use an HW RAID controller.

 

[digininja]

I've not got hardware RAID. What is the best way to do it in software.

The story behind this is one of the VMs I'm running will be FreeNAS so I want it to have direct access to the disks for speed of access. I've a third disk in the machine that will act as storage for the other VMs I'll be running but they will be OK using normal virtual disks.