Recent content by lampbearer

Thanks so much for that - it is nice to know that it has helped someone. So - as my latest freebie suggestion, I recently started playing around with my home wifi setup like I did with these dirt-cheap Dell servers and Proxmox (why oh why didn't I figure out to buy cast-away enterprise stuff...

I'm far from an expert on your question. It's a testament to the robustness of Proxmox that from the time I first posted this thread to now I have done exactly zero maintenance of the install -- the combination of the Dell server and this configuration has been absolutely bullet proof and that...

To guletz -- Cost was a big issue to me -- I really would have liked to boot to SSD, but kind of felt I didn't need speed there -- the server's bios take nearly 5 minutes enumerating drives anyway. Conceptually I love everything you wrote -- I thought long and hard about wading into UEFI (as...

Actually I only had 3 on mine I think (I'm assuming you are using VDEVs and partitions interchangably) and you could certainly use the BIOS-targeted partition instead of the Solaris partition. Originally when I was experimenting, I didn't realize Proxmox would create BIOS partitions on a UEFI...

Thank you very much for the very fine additions and clarifications -- in all of my reading, I've never seen the note about dist-upgrade. I'll look into that. I fixed the GB into MB (that was a typo - shame on me for it -- and I really appreciate the correction) My personal reasons for...

Install Proxmox on a Dell R510 server (12 SCSI/SATA bays) with the following criteria: UEFI boot ZFS mirrored boot drives Large Drive support (> 2TB) SSD-backed caching (a Sun F20 flash accelerator with 96GB of cache on 4 chips) Home File Server There were lots of “gotchas” in the process...

I appreciate the confirmation of what I am seeing. I like to learn -- can you provide any information as to WHY it does not work? I appreciate you are saying that it is "by design", but I'm looking for the technical reasons why. Is zfs a different version in the installer environment? Are...

I have zpools defined by-id. They work fine when proxmox is installed and loading. But they show UNAVAIL when using the install disk in debug mode (debug - CTL-D - abort). Even an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade doesn't work (so it isn't something as simple as a newer zfs package). Can anyone...

Thank you for the response. I'm not sure I understand this comment. I never referenced BSD and understand that Proxmox rides on Debian not BSD. I'm guessing that you are implying is that /dev/sdx is acceptable in the proxmox environment due to different behavior of differently-compiled and...

I have read the arguments about this -- essentially proxmox's position is that an EFI boot partition represents a single point of failure and so it is nonsensical. I get that. But politely, if a person installs the EFI partition to all of the RAID boot drives, then that argument is rendered...

On a fresh install of Proxmox on baremetal with RAID1/zfs, proxmox makes a very poor choice - it builds the RAID array using /dev/sdx notation (going totally against everything recommended by zfs). For many reasons /dev/sdx is a very BAD idea since it doesn't take much rebooting or messing...

30 year computer guy has spent weeks playing and reading the fine manual and still has virtualization questions for people a whole lot smarter than I am: Short version - I need help sharing hardware (details below): ZFS to containers, Optical drives to any guest os (VM or LXC), dogging down...