Well I wanted to add more space for VMs, so i decided to do a rebuild of my (Dell T7810, 2X Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4, 128G) Proxmox server because there was a perceived problem. I have a pciex card that houses a sata drive and an Nvme drive combo. Email reports says that there was something wrong with the sata drive, but the system functioned anyway. Another reason for the upgrade was due to a major Proxmox version update from 8 to 9. Sometimes i just like fresh builds of things. Currently i have only 4vms that i need.
- JellyFin server – Windows 2025 with gpu passthrough of an Intel Arc 380 card – this was in second slot of my Dell T7810 server. Library points to unraid fileserver via SMB/CIFS.
- A management server running tailsacle to allow connection remotely.
- A pxe server – Windows 2025 – used for imaging on my network.. at least booting to isos.
- A website running WordPress/Linux for this blog – Ubuntu Server.
First step was to backup all my vm’ss to an unraid share that i created – this was easy to do using fstab. I did a manual export this time and will eventually make backups automatic.
I decided to use a sata port on the motherboard to be my boot/Proxmox install… 500gig ssd was used. I then added a PCIE card that would allow 4 nvme’s – so a total of 8tb. I have to use the 2nd slot for all drives to work (main gpu slot). 1st slot was used for my 40gig network card. 3rd slot was just a pciex1 connection.4th slot has the arc 380 card, no space left lol.
After setting up the new Proxmox build, i remounted the unraid share and restored my vms. I did have to reconfigure them a bit…but easy enough. One exception was my jellyfin server…it took forever to get my gpu pass thru working gain. I would recommend reading this article. https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pci-passthrough-arc-a380-into-vm.146964/
Everything appears to be working now.. so i’ll put it back in the rack and adjust my port forwards!