I am working with the trial currently but looking forward to moving to the product full time. The thing I am looking to do is mainly run VM's along with some NAS functionality. The VM's take the key roll of this box. Is there a way to strictly have VMs on SSDs for the performance improvements? From what I have seen you do not want to mix SSD and HDD in the same array. I would like to have the storage arry and also have some stand alone SSDs for VM operation. Is this possible?

 

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I am working with the trial currently but looking forward to moving to the product full time. The thing I am looking to do is mainly run VM's along with some NAS functionality. The VM's take the key roll of this box. Is there a way to strictly have VMs on SSDs for the performance improvements? From what I have seen you do not want to mix SSD and HDD in the same array. I would like to have the storage arry and also have some stand alone SSDs for VM operation. Is this possible?

Yes.

 

You can either use SSD's in the cache and have VMs on there, or you can have SSDs mounted outside the array which are used for VMs (which is what I do).  Note that VMs outside the array are not protected against a disk failure unless you run them off a cache pool consisting of more than one drive.  Also note that SSDs will count against the attached devices limit for a license even if not under unRAID control.

Thanks for the help. I will work with this later and see what I can make happen.

 

Thanks