personalt Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I have a win7 sever that has a small SD drive with OS and a pair of 3TB drives in raid 1. My plan to rebuild this server as a VM under unraid. I want to play with unraid to test the VM before I go all in. My server is a video server and uses a Haupagee caputre tool that runs over USB but is finiky. I want to make sure that passes through before I go all in. I dont have a stack of extra drives where I can build a whole new setup without reusing some of the drives from my current system. It is possible run unraid with just a single drive to set up and test the hypervisior? I would like to keep the original OS drive data drives on the side in case I decide to revert back. I have seen some setups where they use SSDs for cache drives and run the VMs(or at least the ones that are speed sensitiveness) off the cache drives. I think that would be my end game but was wondering if I can migrate the VMs between the regular and cache drives if I so choose. Link to comment
mossiemosforth Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I'm surprised no-one has answered this for you. The short answer is yes you can. When you first create a VM you'll specify where the virtual disk will reside (this can be anywhere you like). Should you wish to move it (after say fitting a new cache drive etc) you'll only need to; - Shutdown the VM - Copy/move the virtual disk to the new location/drive - Edit the xml of the VM, changing the file path section for the virtual disk - Start the VM Simples Link to comment
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