Learning lab environment and storage

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I setup a proxmox and an xcp-ng to try and learn viruatualizaiton and determine which one I might like better as well as play around and learn many other things as I go hopefully.

I have 3 “storage” drives in each and trying to figure out what’s the best way to do storage and perhaps create an SMB or NFS share on them. Initially I setup zfs drives in them initially thinking this was necessary, but have since learned that’s not necessary.

I found out creating a VM does not see the zfs, so trying to figure out exactly how this all works. Still new to much of this.

Am I correct in now thinking pass the hard drives through to the VM and create zfs inside the VM, or do I need to create it inside the hypervisor or what is the best course of action?

Ultimately I’d like to learn how to create my own cloud (is one goal)

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Hi Evan,

Welcome to the community. I personally do not do much with VM but lots of folks here do. I am sure someone will chime in and give better advice than I can, as far as VMs go. But keep us up to date with how your set up is going.

Zach

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Welcome! Your storage is another layer – and your VMs don’t see the actual underlying storage – just what you’ve allocated for them. It sounds strange, I know.

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It is a little strange, but it does make sense.

I’m just confused how to create a redundant drive set for storage. Currently just trying to learn all this sort of stuff. Still relatively new to virtualization and linux.

A long term goal is to create a personal cloud and NAS that I can access from anywhere, but creating a redundant storage is what has me really confused.