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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks. The Microserver Gen8 raid controller can be switched to AHCI.
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks. Tell me if I'm wrong: It is far enough to run it at the beginning. But if I use it with my 4 x 3TB HDD, it will require ~12GB just to run ZFS correctly. So only 4GB remain to run Proxmox and VMs (or even containers). Would it be enough?
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks. I'm thinking... If 16GB is not enough for ZFS, why not using the real hardware RAID controller of my HP Microserver Gen8? I've read that it's not recommended to use ZFS on Proxmox but I don't know at which level exactly (does it mean we can't use ZFS for Proxmox OS but we are able to...
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks. Sorry, what "3 partitions" are you talking about?
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks @Dunuin ! Just few questions regarding ZFS: - I'm limited to 16GB of RAM in my HP Microserver Gen8. Is it enough if I want to run these and use ZFS at the same time: - 1 VM for Nextcloud - 1 VM for a VPN server - 1 VM for file sharing (CIFS / NFS at least). - maybe 1...
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Thanks @UdoB for sharing your experience :) Could you elaborate a little bit? What do you mean by "independency OS-disk <--> Data drives is lost as there is just one single "rpool" (I'm still not very comfortable with ZFS at the moment but I know that it is very powerful and would like to take...
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    Best practice regarding storage type

    Hi! I'm new to Proxmox. I have some question about storage. If needed, my current architecture is quite simple : - 1 HP Microserver Gen 8 - 1 Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 3.10 GHz - 16 GB RAM - 1 USB Key for Proxmox - 4 HDDs (3 TB each) and 1 SSD (256 GB) and Proxmox Regarding my...
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    [SOLVED] pve-root directory runs out of space: Why and What should I do?

    Thank you so much! Very easy to follow and it seems to work like a charm :) I have other questions related to storage on Proxmox. But I close this topic since it's resolved and create a new one. Thanks again!
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    [SOLVED] pve-root directory runs out of space: Why and What should I do?

    Thank you very much for your help! After all, I decided to reinstall Proxmox from scratch on a new 32GB USB device. I thought Proxmox would fill the root partition but that's not what it did. I ended up with the following: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda...
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    Installation guide for HP MicroServer Gen8

    I just installed Proxmox 7.1 and that's it. No extra driver to be installed. Though, I disabled RAID controller and enabled AHCI controller.
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    [SOLVED] pve-root directory runs out of space: Why and What should I do?

    Hi! I'm very new to Proxmox, since I just installed it for the first time few days ago. Some context: Before that, I was using ESXi. The ESXi OS was installed on a MicroSD Card (8 GB), in a HP Micro Server Gen8. So, I thought I could just do the same for Proxmox and decided to install it an 8...
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    Installation guide for HP MicroServer Gen8

    Hi! Just came to tell you That I finally installed Proxmox on my server! FYI, using the official Proxmox ISO installer, it was very easy and worked out of the box.
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    Installation guide for HP MicroServer Gen8

    Thanks for your feedback! Indeed, this memory limit is a real drawback compared to newer servers. Thanks again and have fun with your new toy :)
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    Installation guide for HP MicroServer Gen8

    Hi @SHE ! I still haven't install Proxmox so far. Did you have any news about the fan issue between Proxmox and HP gen8? Thanks a take care!
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    Installation guide for HP MicroServer Gen8

    Thanks. At the moment, I didn't install Proxmox yet. I prefer to have all information before starting anything.