Hello!

I'm working on migrating my physical Plex server to a VM hosted inside a Proxmox cluster, with unRAID being the NAS for storage and and possibly a tertiary VM host when my unRAID bug report is solved. However, because of the amount of network traffic involving media streaming, VM migrating, and even just VMs living on the NAS, I've had my Proxmox cluster loose quorum at least twice, and reboot. So, it's time to segregate my network. 

My Proxmox nodes as well as my unRAID server all have 8 Gb NICs.

 

What I'd like to do:

1. Have the three Proxmox nodes (2 physical, 1 hosted on unRAID) have their own 172.16.0.0 network for cluster stuff (probably dual Gb NIC)
   1. I'll also be setting up a dumb switch for the ring1, secondary cluster network for when my switch does firmware upgrades.
      1. Bonus points if I can also use this switch for the rest of my requirements as a failover.
2. Proxmox be able to store it's VMs on the NAS using 172.16.1.0 network, so VM storage is on a separate network (and thus separate NICs).
3. Have the Plex VM be able to stream media from the NAS and be on it's own 192. network and be reachable no matter which physical host it lives on.
4. Have all these connections mentioned, be direct connections. There will be another NIC or two for client side using LAG (I have a UniFi switch that supports this). I'm just limited on switch ports.

 

I figured if I can make unRAID have a virtual switch (like Hyper-V), I'd be able to assign that virtual switch an IP address of 192.168.0.1, 172.16.0.1, or 172.16.1.1 (no gateway) for each bond, that would allow the Proxmox nodes to always feel like their going to the same location for data for HA, as well as Plex.

 

is this possible? I haven't found any documentation on v-switch within unRAID besides a pdf that displays the different options.

Did you get Your answer ? I would like to know too.