I've been running xpenology on bare hardware for a long time, but I'm thinking of switching to proxmox.
My goal is to merge my Plex server into the xpenology server with a passthru GPU for transcoding.
My current xpenoloy server is a older Xyratec Hs-1235t running 12 drives off the same lsi controller.
(It's been really stable, running DSM 6.1.6-15266, and 2 or 3 virtual machines on VMM)
The system I've put together for proxmox is the following.
Supermicro X9DRW-iF motherboard, Dual E5-2620v2, 32GB ram, in a 12Bay Hotswap case.
Paired with a LSI SAS2008 HBA, with the other 4 xpenology drives hooked to the Motherboard 6 port sata controller.
Proxmox is installed on the 4 Port SCU controller off the motherboard. So I have a total of 14 drive ports available for xpenology.
(Proxmox is installed on 2 ssd's on a zfs raid mounted internally, so I still have my 12 hotswap bays for xpenology)
I've got PCIe passthru working, and I've got debian 10 running with the LSI and the 6 port sata controller passed to that virtual machine.
My questions are, is passthru the way to go in this situation?
Or should I just do the map by disk ID instead? Any advantages/disadvantages on each method?