Running a remote PBS for several clusters i'm getting the impression these problems became quite rare after improving disk IO/zfs performance on the PBS. Network speed seems less relevant.
You should be able to just remove cache devices. If that makes the server hang it would probably be a hardware problem. Or maybe it was a bug that's long gone now.
I ran into this when a second node that had no local-lvm ( zfs only) was added. Adding this to storage.cfg on pve1 fixed it:
lvmthin: local-lvm
thinpool data
vgname pve
content rootdir,images
nodes pve1
Management is expecting them to help out, and Truenas/ixsystems support seems to have no problem with LVM over iSCSI, they suggested that. I'd be happier with ZFS over iSCSI but that'd mean patching all nodes. And me being the only rocket surgeon in town.
Keep in mind you can't use LVM thin/snapshots that way. See Shared LVM on iSCSI: how safe is it?.
The good news is that the data on storage/target side will be sparse.
That link no longer works. There is Proxmox Cluster File System (pmxcfs).
I tested lvm on iscsi on my home cluster and seems to work fine, but that does not really guarantee it's safe for production.
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