Hi guys!
I have a R720 I was going to use with proxmox partly in order to virtualize TrueNAS. For this reason I was thinking of passing the PERC raid controller through to the VM and booting proxmox from another SSD source. is there a good solution for this? if it matters I have the 16 bay front, and no disk slots on the rear. I was thinking of using a PCIE m.2 adatpter but heard that booting from those may not work if even detected.

PS. I am also running into problems with the lifecycle controller when trying to manually update firmware and bios (even if using USB flashdrive and F10) which results in me not being able to use new features of iDRAC such as HTTPS firmware mass updates.

Thanks in advance :)

  • ChaoticWeaponry@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can adapt the front DVD drive to a 2.5” SSD or you can use an NVMe drive WITH a USB drive with a bootloader on it (clover or rEFInd)

    R710-30 do not have options to boot directly from NVMe, but you can use workarounds (like above)