December 10, 20232 yr A buddy of mine got a QNAP and a Dell Poweredge R620. I was going to set him up with something similar to what I'm familiar with at work, but less intricate as he's not a computer professional. He knows enough to be somewhat dangerous but that's about it. At work we have 3 hosts connected to a SAN. The hosts are running ESXI so I understand how all that functions, but where I think I might have confused myself is attempting to use UnRaid as a replacement for ESXI as my buddy isn't going to be able to use ESXI to the fullest, he wants more of a one stop shop. He already really likes (and paid for) unraid so getting him to switch would be like pulling teeth. All that being said I would like some assistance from people smarter than myself. Is the best way to do this to create the LUNs on the QNAP and let the QNAP do it's thing with a solid RAID array and handle the drives entirely? Then I would assume I pass the LUNS through ISCSI to UnRaid and let UnRaid mount them but not do the parity,as this would already be handled by the QNAP's RAID array? The only other thing I could think of is creating a LUN for each hard drive, and passing each "drive" as a LUN to UnRaid and let UnRaid do it's thing, with the QNAP acting as basically a pass through for the drives. I don't know enough about how SANS/LUNS work as I wasn't the one who set up ours at work. Any insight anyone could help me with would be greatly appreciated.
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