ghoule

Lovely bit of Kit you have.... So if I am getting this correctly, for the expansion bays you have created a VM on the primary server and then passed through the hardware that is required plus the expansion hardware... Is this simply to get around the 30 device limit for the array? if so I can see the logic in this but it would seem a an awful waste of resources on the primary server and licensing costs... forgive me for my ignorance I am new here and really want to understand the thinking and design principles of this build... As I am looking at at and personally would have gone down the route of either ZFS for that size of an array following Wendels guide that he did for Gamers Nexus or created JBOD pools of disks using a RAID adaptor (I have the 9365-28i) so using the 9365-28i I have to pass through the devices as JBODs anyway as no IT mode (nor would I want to downgrade a £1k card) and it works, and if I required that amount of disks would have gone down this route myself of JBOD'ing the drives to make it look like x3 drives were x1 drive to the OS... Sorry for the waffle just thinking out loud but I do honestly want to hear your thoughts on choosing this method..

And for the little 1U that you can see... basically does not a lot, at the moment but can be spooled up to take up some slack... just now need a way to manage them both at the same time to make it more like freenas (that has issues with bonded ports and thread ripper 2990's)

Here is a Quick update on mine