XCP-NG Hard Drive or Partition Pass Through

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hello,

I am new to XCP-ng and am working at setting up my system.

I have two 1 TB drives that were mirrored during the XCP ng installation. My ISO storage and VM’s reside on these disks.

I would like to setup a Linux VM to use as a file server. I have six 3 TB drives on a HBA that I want to set up as RAID6 and then partition into two (approximately a 10TB and 2TB partition). The larger of the partitions would be file storage for the file server (VM residing on the 1 TB drives) and the smaller one for storage for a different VM.

Based on my research I cannot use the 10 TB partition as a VM storage since it exceeds the 2 TB limit.

I have watched the Hard Drive Pass-through video and am wondering if I can setup the RAID and partitions in Dom0 and pass through partitions to another VM. If not, what other options are recommended?

Thank you,
Jabber222

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You could probably pass the raid through to a VM, or you could setup FreeNAS/TrueNAS virtualized https://youtu.be/gk8gHYjf7rw but neither of these I would recommend for a business, but good for lab use.