jchotchkiss

Hello - I have 3 storage devices. Internal A. 2TB NVMe B. 1TB NVMe External C. 2TB SSD My goal is to create a distributed Splunk deployment. Prior to being able to do this, I need to determine how I want to use these storage devices. Things I have read and seen online are causing me to second guess the direction I chose to go. Hopefully, this community can provide some clarity. For the Internal drives, I decided to crease a RAID 0 cache pool. This would aggregate my cache storage to 3TB. I believe this to be suitable for VM images, Docker Containers, and Splunk indexing. However, I am not sure how to handle the 2TB SSD. It is connected to my server using an external USB 4.0 port. Considering this is a lab, I don't feel I need to worry about parity for the time being. However, I would like to be able to use this storage to back up my appdata directory on the cache drives as well as use it for SMB and NFS file sharing. What is the best way for me to configure the External 2TB SSD to accomplish this? Thanks in advanced!