Recent content by Matt Kelley

Just an update if anyone is curious: I realized that if I really wanted OS and data separation I needed to get the SSDs to mount inside my R420 and not take up any of the four front hotswap bays. I wound up with two of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GDDVKX8/ connected to my...

Thanks wolfgang! Last question - What's the preferred way for me to do the OS partition? I thought ZFS mirroring on SSD was a good idea but I have seen some people suggest that it's not since ZFS doesn't support trim yet. But now my raid card is in IT mode so I can't use it to mirror the drives...

Is there a preferred way then between the two? Should I just Raid Z2 everything and keep OS and VM images together or should I get more 8 drive servers and pursue the OS and VM pool separation?

I’m trying to figure out the preferred hardware / software setup for proxmox in my case . I’d like to be able to use the awesome storage replication features as well as be able to freely use migration across cluster nodes using the GUI. My hardware: 2x 8-bay Dell R520s (already own)...