Hello All. I have posted a few times in here before, and I am wanting to find out if what I am wanting to to is feasible.
I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 server that I picked up cheaply. (2) quad core 2 Ghz processor, 24GB of RAM, (8) 750G hard drives.
I initially set this up with OMV, but I am wanting to also be able to run virtual machines on it. So, I pulled out all the drives, added a new one as the boot drive, and installed Proxmox on it. I then installed OMV as a virtual machine, with the hard drives being passed through to OMV for data storage. If I set them up as SCSIx in the config file, then I was getting lots of end_request I/O errors in the OMV log on bootup,and occasionally at other times. So, I edited the config file, and changed the drives to virtio devices. This worked fine, no errors, but the SMART data was not passed through to OMV.
Apparently Proxmox has a limit of 5 SATA devices in a VM, so adding them as SATAx devices was not really an option, because I have 8 data drives, and will probably be adding up to 5 more via a SuperMicro hot swap chassis and an add-in SATA card at some point. I do not do RAID on any of the drives, I just have backups to external drives, and a lot of the data does not change that often anyway, so I have decided against RAID for my setup. Being able to setup another machine with OMV or even just plain Debian and accessing my data is the important thing for me.
Now, to my point. Since I am having errors when trying to pass through the physical drives as SCSI, and not getting SMART data when I set them up as VirtIO, I am wanting to find out if anyone has tried and either succeeded or failed to setup Proxmox and OMV next to each other. My plan is to install Proxmox from the install CD as normal, and then to follow the instructions in the sticky thread on installing OMV using APT. The GUI for Proxmox runs on port 8006, and Proxmox runs on standard port 80 or 443 if using SSL, so I am thinking that won't be an issue.
Is there an issue of running OMV on Debian Jessie when normally it is on Wheezy? I don't want to use Proxmox 3.x yet, as beta software on my NAS is not my idea of stability, and the production versions of OMV have served me well in the past, with no data loss due to it directly, just my own stupidity.
Thanks for your time.