Hi all,
So I just bought a Dell PowerEdge R510 and I'm gonna use it as a media and file server. Only problem is I don't really know what OS to put on it.. I'm quite new to the homlab world.
These are my needs: I need to be able to create different storage pools;
1 pool RAID 1 with 2 drives for general storage (VMs, ISOs, ...), doesn't need to be a shared folder
1 pool RAID 6 with 5 drives for all my media, needs to connect to my PC (SMB share) and should also be accessible by a Windows Server VM and Plex VM/docker/plugin
1 or 2 pools with seperate disks for download; Sonarr, Lidarr,... also SMB share so I can access it.
I looked at Unraid but that doesn't seem to be what I need (different pools), maybe FreeNAS (but does it handle Windows Server VM well?), ESXi is top choice right now; but what to do with my disks; do I pass them through to the VMs?
Like I said I'm only a beginner when it comes to this kind of stuff, gotta start somewhere!
Thanks
