How do you guys allocate your storage? For context, I’ve got a single r730xd that I’ll be population over time. I intend to start populating my 12 bays with at least 4tb drives. I’d like to have 20tb raw before to long. I initially thought about doing hardware raid, then using NFS on product to pass, but I’m thinking now I’m going to pass the discs to a VM for build storage and use containers to run my torrenting services and jellyfin. I’ll likely be using RHEL and Podman since I’m more familiar with that because of work and I’ve landed in hardware raid because I have it and the hba has its own battery. For anyone else that have your compute and storage on the same machine, how do you do it?

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Just use zfs within proxmox, only reason you’d do disk passthrough to vm would be if you’re using esxi and want to use zfs still.

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Plus hardware pass through makes moving VMs more complicated. More virtual disks and networked storage for everything reasonable

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