Subj : Re: Coming back to Linux
To   : paulie420
From : deon
Date : Sun Sep 21 2025 09:07 am

  Re: Re: Coming back to Linux
  By: paulie420 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Sep 20 2025 03:45 pm

Howdy,

 > Sorry to burst in, but I'm having some passthrough issues on a new server;
 > the Dell r730xd has 14 HDD bays. I want to pass 8 of them to a TrueNAS VM on
 > Proxmox, and use the other 6 bays for Proxmox - I'll prolly have to buy
 > another SATA card so I can do this, right???

I would think so.

I know you can pass through drives one at a time, pRDM and you would do software raid in the machine that you pass them too.

But if you pass the card to the machine, then it will see everything attached to the card, and assuming the machine has the drivers, it can control it as if it was physically in the machine (eg: hardware raid).

I think the latter is better, because you can also use SMART on the drives (to get temperature, run hours, errors, etc), whereas for RDM's I dont think you can.

I did that with my old server, my motherboard had two controllers, so I passed one to a VM for truenas, and the other stayed with VMware for ESXi volumes.


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