February 5, 201412 yr The reason i want to run unRAID as a VM is so that i can have all the great features ESXi has, like the ability to deploy VMs easily, assign separate datastores to VMs, passthru hardware and more. Why would my server boot into unRAID first and then all my VMs sit on it? I understand the advantages listed here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31716.0, but they still don't make sense. For example, I want my Windows VM to sit on my RAID1 2x256GB SSD array i have setup, on a separate controller to unRAID. I want my Linux VM to sit on my RAID1 2x120GB SSD array i also have setup, on another controller. On the hand, i just want unRAID to work and sit as my most stable, untouched VM of the lot. This works just fine in ESXi but it seems like with unRAID 6 i would take a major step back by having all my VMs sit on the cache drive, no visual way of managing VMs, no reporting, nothing... until someone, sometime, builds a plugin. Am i missing something here?
February 5, 201412 yr ironic gives a better explanation somewhere but i believe its because "passing through" is looked down upon for data crucial devices like a NAS box in a commercial environment? I'm not 100% sure someone else can elaborate, or correct me.
February 5, 201412 yr You can keep using ESXi the way you do now. Adding Xen features to unRaid, letting it run as dom0, provides some nice flexibility in the product.
February 5, 201412 yr Author You can keep using ESXi the way you do now. Adding Xen features to unRaid, letting it run as dom0, provides some nice flexibility in the product. I suppose my question was more like, can i do what i'm doing now, with unRAID. I.e. keep my VMs on separate hardware RAID1 arrays and run unRAID base.
February 5, 201412 yr You can keep using ESXi the way you do now. Adding Xen features to unRaid, letting it run as dom0, provides some nice flexibility in the product. I suppose my question was more like, can i do what i'm doing now, with unRAID. I.e. keep my VMs on separate hardware RAID1 arrays and run unRAID base. Sure. If you are using a h/w raid controller, probably the drives connected to it are invisible to unRaid anyway? If not you just have to be careful to not assign them to the array. Sure we can add a webGui feature that lets you 'omit' devices, but that's just sugar, right?
February 5, 201412 yr Author So i can pass them directly through to the Xen VM via the cfg file for each VM? Or maybe i just get myself a nice 250GB SSD as a cache...
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