January 1, 20251 yr I'm new to Unraid. I'm designing a server to run Windows Server and Debian Linux in VMs. I want to create a RAID5 array and have the file system available to both OSs . I want everything to run on one server hardware system. I'm looking at using Proxmox as the hypervisor. If I have a VM for Windows Server, a VM for Debian Linux, under Proxmox, would I also add another VM for Unraid and they would all be peers? Or, would Unraid serve as the hypervisor, replacing Proxmox entirely? Then I would create the Windows and Linux VMs in Unraid, and they would both be able to mount the RAID filesystem?
January 3, 20251 yr Author As I've looked further, it does appear that Unraid could be the hypervisor, and could support a Windows VM and a Linux VM. Can you point me to a walk-through on how I would set that up so each VM could simultaneously mount and access the RAID array?
January 3, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, timg11 said: Can you point me to a walk-through on how I would set that up so each VM could simultaneously mount and access the RAID array? no need for that kind of walkthrough, really. unraid also supports exporting storage as "shares" via NFS or SMB...so simply export that array as a share and mount it via NFS or SMB from inside each VM...virtIO-drivers in the VM should help to speed-up the connection above physical network bandwidth (up to CPU/Bus-Bandwidth is possible here).
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