I am newly onto Unraid 6, and I wan to play with VMs. I came across a comment in a forum post that wasn't really related to this that I haven't bee able to find again while looking into one of the problems I ran into. The comment said that I should not have my VMs installed onto a drive that is parity protected, I understand why, but I can't work out how to configure that. I have a 1TB drive that I was planning on using as a dedicated VM drive and fire most of them up one at a time when I want to play with something specific.

 

So my question is, How can I have a drive in my system that is accessible to UNRAID, but not part of the parity protected array that isn't a cache drive.

 

Thanks in advance.

I am newly onto Unraid 6, and I wan to play with VMs. I came across a comment in a forum post that wasn't really related to this that I haven't bee able to find again while looking into one of the problems I ran into. The comment said that I should not have my VMs installed onto a drive that is parity protected, I understand why, but I can't work out how to configure that. I have a 1TB drive that I was planning on using as a dedicated VM drive and fire most of them up one at a time when I want to play with something specific.

 

So my question is, How can I have a drive in my system that is accessible to UNRAID, but not part of the parity protected array that isn't a cache drive.

 

Thanks in advance.

install the "Unassigned Devices" plugin.  It is specifically designed for handling drives not part of the array.

Why do you not want it to be a cache drive?

 

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Because the cache drive will copy itself into the array, I just want these drives accessible, but not protected.

Because the cache drive will copy itself into the array, I just want these drives accessible, but not protected.

this is only true for shares which have Use Cache set to "Yes".  Any that are set to "Only" are never moved off the cache,

You can set your vDisk share to "Cache Only", the same as you would do with AppData and your Docker images. This will prevent it from being moved to the array.