Allocating fast SSD Disks for VM as Raid1/Mirror

[Deep Insights]

Just starting out with Unraid.  Here are the disks I have:

5 x 8TB HDD

4 x 500GB SSD

 

Currently, I have

1 x 8TB Parity + 4 x 8TB Data

2 x 500GB Cache Pool

 

Created 1 Media Share that uses the 4x8TB Data disks

 

Here's what I would like to do:

With the above disks allocation, I am left with 2 x 500GB SSDs.  I would like to have RAID1/mirror equivalent of these disks that I pass on to a VM that will host Windows OS?

 

Thanks!

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[itimpi]

Not clear if you want your VM to see virtual drives or physical ones?

 

If you are running Unraid 6.8.3 then you can manually create the second pair of SSDs as a raid array and then mount it using the Unassigned Devices plugin or use the ZFS plugin to create them as a ZFS array.  Alternatively you could pass the complete drives through to Windows (by-passing Unraid) and let the Windows do the raid part.

 

if you run Unraid 6.9.0 (currently in rc status) then it supports ,multiple (cache) pools that can be individually configured so easy to set it up at the Unraid level.