i got a question about using unRAID as a VM with a SSD and a few HDD's

 

how do you use a SSD in unRAID as VM guest (something like Linus from LinusTechTips used with his 2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower video)

do i need to add the SSD as a Cache Device or as a Array Device? (i want to have 2 VM's using 1 SSD and the HDD's for monthly backup)

yphoon" post="422943" timestamp="1448908057"]

i got a question about using unRAID as a VM with a SSD and a few HDD's

 

how do you use a SSD in unRAID as VM guest (something like Linus from LinusTechTips used with his 2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower video)

do i need to add the SSD as a Cache Device or as a Array Device? (i want to have 2 VM's using 1 SSD and the HDD's for monthly backup)

unRAID is not the guest, it is the host. You would use the SSD as cache.

looks like i typed it wrong

i want to make 2 vm's, but i want to use the SSD for both of them

should i still set the SSD as cache?

 

i dont want to use the mover app

yphoon" post="422986" timestamp="1448920075"]

looks like i typed it wrong

i want to make 2 vm's, but i want to use the SSD for both of them

should i still set the SSD as cache?

 

i dont want to use the mover app

 

How I have mine set up is as so

 

• Arrays HDs
  
• Cache Drive
  
• SSD Mounted with Unassigned Devices to hold my VMs and docker.img
  

 

 

Right now I have 2 vms similar to linus hosted on a hdd pool.

 

You want to add atleast a 240gb ssd to the cache pool, then set up the vdisk share to use cache pool only. Set up your 2 vms to install to the vdisk share, and allocated around 100gb to each on a 240gb drive.

 

Set up your hdd pool and arrayvdisk share and either back up to it via the network or if you need the vms to access to backups directly then set up the hdd pool in the vm editing, add a second hdd image to the vms on the hdd pool

 

I recommend you start small, around 50gb per vm and expand as needed

 

If you need more help let me know.

 

Regards

Jamie

doesnt the mover app move files from the cache over to the parity device over some time?

yphoon" post="423087" timestamp="1448948335"]

doesnt the mover app move files from the cache over to the parity device over some time?

Only user shares that have been set to cache Yes are moved. You can set the share to cache Only.