I'm looking for advice from Proxmox pros.
I currently have a 2 ext4 2TB drives for storage. They are part of home server which has been running for 6 years in a configuration I call a poor man's RAID 1. I would mirror 1 drive to the other via a nightly rsync cron job.
I've rebuilt my server with new hardware and am setting up Proxmox containers and VMs to accomplish certain tasks (pfSense, Win IIS server, media serving, etc.). Containers sounded great for a file serving service, but NFS4 is not possible in a container. So I setup a KVM with the intent to share the root of 1 2TB drive via a shared folder like in VMware or maybe bind mount points in a container. Bind mount points are not an option for a KVM, and the closest I found to shared folders is setting up a NFS share, which seems far from optional.
I read the threads saying running a file server in a KVM is not advised, which is why I wanted a container. However, I don't want to turn the host into a file server. In my mind, the host should be for virtualization and management thereof and that's it. Am I wrong?
The question:
Should I abandon efforts to share or attach my storage to a KVM and allocate 1 drive to KVM's storage using RAW storage, or proceed to attempt sharing the drives via an NFS share created on the host (or via some other method)? Or, do something else entirely? I'm open to ideas.
I currently have a 2 ext4 2TB drives for storage. They are part of home server which has been running for 6 years in a configuration I call a poor man's RAID 1. I would mirror 1 drive to the other via a nightly rsync cron job.
I've rebuilt my server with new hardware and am setting up Proxmox containers and VMs to accomplish certain tasks (pfSense, Win IIS server, media serving, etc.). Containers sounded great for a file serving service, but NFS4 is not possible in a container. So I setup a KVM with the intent to share the root of 1 2TB drive via a shared folder like in VMware or maybe bind mount points in a container. Bind mount points are not an option for a KVM, and the closest I found to shared folders is setting up a NFS share, which seems far from optional.
I read the threads saying running a file server in a KVM is not advised, which is why I wanted a container. However, I don't want to turn the host into a file server. In my mind, the host should be for virtualization and management thereof and that's it. Am I wrong?
The question:
Should I abandon efforts to share or attach my storage to a KVM and allocate 1 drive to KVM's storage using RAW storage, or proceed to attempt sharing the drives via an NFS share created on the host (or via some other method)? Or, do something else entirely? I'm open to ideas.