klamath Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Howdy, Thinking of migrating my vmware instance of Plex over to KVM unraid, wondering if there are any other options besides NFS v3 for backend storage options. Thanks, Tim Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 If Docker could work for you, you'd have a direct mount... Quote Link to comment
klamath Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Not sure I follow, looking to have the OS/Plex DB off the array on a external freenas server. CPU and Memory used on the unraid server. Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Oh, now I see. Any reason why you don't want the Plex DB on the cache drive/pool or an unassigned device? Would make things simpler to remove the freenas dependency. Quote Link to comment
klamath Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 I want my array drives for WORM media, freenas server is a better fit for random IO workload. I also want redundancy and not waste drive bays on btrfs raid 1's. The cache drive i already have install is only 1TB and my plex server is almost 600GB with all the media indexing it has been doing. I used NFS before with mixed results, iSCSI would be best but pretty sure that isnt built into the kernel at all Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Yeah, that data doesn't belong on the array. I'd use a couple of laptop harddrives in a BTRFS RAID-1 config but I understand the desirability of the freenas volume. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any options than NFS to access the freenas volume, but I'm definitely not an expert. Quote Link to comment
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