Virtualizing Samba Storage

[beersykins]

Hello hello,

 

I was looking to migrate my fileserver from a baremetal centos box running both Plex and samba with 4x4TB mdraid to a larger chassis (8x3tb datastore in the sig)

 

What's your best strategy for this environment?

 

I was considering leveraging raid6 on the h710p controller for all disks, rolling ESXi and making a datastore pool in VMware across the whole volume. Separate server instance VM like ubuntu with a large multi terabyte vdisk and separate app instances like Plex accessing that over cifs or sshfs

 

What would be better?

 

I was considering some stuff like leveraging freenas/zfs with compression and dedup as a passthrough disk with a different hba, but would prefer keeping the flexibility of retaining some of the hardware resources for vm

[leadeater]

That would work fine, better than passing the RAID card through to a VM anyway. Having to wait for a storage VM to start up so storage comes online for the host is a bit of a pain, you need some local storage anyway to create VMs at all.