XCP-ng shared physical hdd's between 2 physical servers

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hi!
First time on the forum :wave:

I have just recently started a homelab project.

I bought two servers:
1x Dell PowerEdge R310 (4x3,5"hdd slots)
1x Dell PowerEdge R720 (16x2,5" hdd slots)

My plan is to install XCP-ng on both servers.

I will run XenOrchestra + pfSense on the R310. There is 4x 3,5" hdd slots in that server, 2x3.5" will be used for XO and pfSense and 2 slots will be empty.

The R720 will run PLEX + a minecraft server + future fun stuff.

Now to my question, can i passthru the empty 2x3.5" hdd’s from the R310 to be used by vm’s in the R720?

The reason being that i want to be able to use my 2x3.5" nas hdd’s i have laying around from a previous project.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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No, each system uses the local drives for local storage.

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Okey, thanks for your fast reply and thanks for your awesome videos and guides @LTS_Tom !

Could I for example create a samba share vm on 1 server and have my Plex vm connect to that from the other server?

Sorry for my noob questions, I’m kind of new to the server World :blush:

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Thanks.

You can install samba or what ever sharing tool you want on one of the VM’s

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Cool, I’ll try it out as soon as i have gotten my hands on some 2.5" hdd’s for the R720 :slight_smile: (It´s empty at the moment)

Thanks again!

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XOSan? I haven’t read up on it so not really sure, and it doesn’t look like we can build it from source.