November 30, 20232 yr Hello, If i have an array of 4x8tb drives, what's the recommended way of benefiting from the whole 32tb space inside a vm? From what i understood reading the forums, creating a virtual disk of the VM with a size of 32tb won't be the right way to do it, as once that img reaches 8tb, it's game over as it can't be split among the other drives. Another way i read about in the forums is unassign the drives and pass them through to vm os and use a software raid inside the vm but that's kind of sketchy as i already have the array built in Unraid. And i would also like to continue being able to access the array as a network share. Thank you for any tips.
December 1, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution you could create a share on the array and mount it on the vm. Either mount it via SMB, or mount it directly in the VM's settings. (Note that a permanent mount can give you troubles / hangs when stopping the array. Make sure to stop the VM before or you could face a long timeout period if you are unlucky.) (Note2: although you could use the whole 32Tb this way, there is a limit that no single file can cross disk boundaries. In the share you can configure the splitting mode for files an directories, pick one that best suits your needs) Edited December 1, 20232 yr by MAM59
December 1, 20232 yr Author oh wow, that was a good idea but also so obvious, i'm ashamed i didn't think of that thank you! Quote Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on //192.168.0.155/storage 41T 295G 40T 1% /storage
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