shshekhar

Hi Everyone, My Unraid setup is running on a puny J1800 board with two disks, one for data other parity. I am going to setup a home lab with slightly more capable system (Ryzen 5600x + Radeon 6600xt) running Proxmox. To avoid wasting energy, I’d prefer to have only one always online server at home. The current plan is to deprecate the existing Unraid box and run Unraid in a VM on Proxmox. Keeping the Proxmox related complexities out of this, I wanted to confirm the following: 1. What’s the safest way to move Unraid setup from one box to other with minimum risk of data loss? - I am thinking of setting up the Unraid in VM first, yanking data drive from current box and attaching it to the VM. If there is no data loss, the parity drive gets moved as well. Otherwise if something goes wrong, I should be able to access all data in emulated mode from existing box. Does this sound reasonable? I am guessing this approach would not allow me to just migrate the boot drive, so all configuration will need to be done from scratch. Is there any way around it? Would it be safe to (first backup and) move boot drive to VM as well and see if things work fine on VM with missing parity instead? 2. Your opinion on running Unraid in VM sharing the host compute resources with other VMs / containers. - Is this approach in itself too risky? While it is a home lab server and will see some experimentation, I plan to limit the experiments to a single VM. The overall Proxmox setup should remain pretty stable (1x Unraid [always on] + 1x Linux [always on] for experiments + 1x Windows [on demand] for gaming + 1x Linux [on demand] for programming). The drives will exclusively be passed to Unraid VM. I would love to hear opinion and experience of other folks that have run box to box Unraid migration including physical drives and/or have setup Unraid in VM.