[WHS2011 & Drivepool as VM: bad idea?]

Perfect!  Thanks for the answers, y'all.  I think I'll plan on just passing through the storage controller to simplify things, but just knowing that it can work saves me a lot of nail-biting.

[WHS2011 & Drivepool as VM: bad idea?]

As part of a fever dream of upgrading my server hardware, I'm entertaining the notion of installing WHS2011 and Drivepool as a VM on ESXi or Hyper-V.

 

I'm concerned, however, that Drivepool won't be able to (properly) see the physical hard drives and manage them correctly.

 

Does anyone have experience with doing this, and could you let me know if running Drivepool in a VM will work well with the physical disks?  Thanks!