Softraid (MD Raid)

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I've seen the various posts for users successful in setting up a Softraid environment. I am about to migrate to Proxmox VE from ESXi 5.5.
My system has four drives. One is a rather smallish drive (250G) that is primarily my ESXi boot and OS drive. I have a 1TB drive that has all my VM's. And then I have two 2TB drives that currently are really not being used for much of anything, but I was hoping to setup in a raid1 softraid and made available to my Proxmox KVM VM's.

I really don't have any money to throw at this box. It's not a production system. Just a home server.
I'm hoping to maintain a similar storage arrangement, adding he raid1 array. LVM is even something somewhat foreign to me, but seems with ProxMox it's a necessity?

Any comments?

I'm new to the forums, so early apologies if I've gone awry with respect to forum etiquette.

Thanks in advance.

Chris
 
Thanks Tom. I did glance over the material at the links in the post. But not sure they accurately depict what I am trying to do. I am not looking to include the drive and filesystems that ProxMox is installed to in a RAID configuration. Simply a couple of 2TB disks in a RAID 1 config that can be shared across a couple of KVM guests for storage of video and audio files that want to reduce the risk of loss.

Thanks,
Chris
 
tdsadmin said:
Thanks Tom. I did glance over the material at the links in the post. But not sure they accurately depict what I am trying to do. I am not looking to include the drive and filesystems that ProxMox is installed to in a RAID configuration. Simply a couple of 2TB disks in a RAID 1 config that can be shared across a couple of KVM guests for storage of video and audio files that want to reduce the risk of loss.

Thanks,
Chris
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That is pretty much what the soft raid setup will do for you

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Thanks. This is going to be my weekend project. From what I was reading in the information provided in the links Tom shared, seemed the process involved migrating everything to the raid, which isn't what I'm trying to do. We'll see how and it goes and I'll share my experiences.

Thank you all so very much.
 
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