Hello -

I have 3 storage devices.

Internal
A. 2TB NVMe
B. 1TB NVMe

External
C. 2TB SSD

My goal is to create a distributed Splunk deployment. Prior to being able to do this, I need to determine how I want to use these storage devices. Things I have read and seen online are causing me to second guess the direction I chose to go. Hopefully, this community can provide some clarity.

For the Internal drives, I decided to crease a RAID 0 cache pool. This would aggregate my cache storage to 3TB. I believe this to be suitable for VM images, Docker Containers, and Splunk indexing.

However, I am not sure how to handle the 2TB SSD. It is connected to my server using an external USB 4.0 port. Considering this is a lab, I don't feel I need to worry about parity for the time being. However, I would like to be able to use this storage to back up my appdata directory on the cache drives as well as use it for SMB and NFS file sharing.

What is the best way for me to configure the External 2TB SSD to accomplish this?

Thanks in advanced!

1 hour ago, jchotchkiss said:

What is the best way for me to configure the External 2TB SSD to accomplish this

I would suggest you just plug it in and use the Unassigned Devices plugin to manage mounting it as required. You could also have script to handle the backups automatically triggered when you plug it in.