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    UdoB replied to the thread Hardwarer oder Software RAID.
    Okay :-) Wenn man den Raid Controller allerdings so verwenden will, kann man ihn nicht in den ansonsten empfohlenen "IT"-Mode umschalten. ("Initiator Target", ohne virtuell definierte Platten. Wir wissen bisher gar nicht, welcher Controller-Typ...
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    UdoB reacted to daanw's post in the thread 8.4 to 9.2 upgrade with Like Like.
    Proxmox 8.4 to the current 9.2.2 is the way to go, 9.1 is possible but quite complicated. Keep in mind that 7.0 is actually just 6.20 but Linus doesn't like large numbers. ;) So the step is less daunting than it seems. That said, you can always...
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    Iirc WD20EFAX are SMR ("Shingled ..."). It is really a game of luck to make them work with ZFS. (Read https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/notices/wdsmr/ ) Problems especially during resilvering are somewhat... expected.
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    UdoB replied to the thread Hardwarer oder Software RAID.
    Gibt es einen Grund, nicht alles per Hardware-Raid oder eben alles per ZFS aufzubauen?
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    UdoB reacted to ThoSo's post in the thread Hardwarer oder Software RAID with Like Like.
    Das ist doch genau der richtige Ausgangspunkt - eine Testkiste zum spielen, kaputtmachen und ausprobieren inkl. Desaster Recovery! Also learning by doing! Ich bevorzuge Hardware-Raid (je nach Controller), nutze aber kein ZFS sondern lieber ext4...
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    Just as a bad designed example: one single pool, RaidZ2, three devices for the Special Device because two were not stable - and one being attached by USB. Again: bad design. What I can see here is this: root@pvec:~# zpool iostat -v 5...
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    Seems so; it's great that it works fine for you! That's why I very often emphasize "my context"... :-)
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    Not what I am seeing in the real world. Let's start with a fresh VM where nothing is already backed up: zpool iostat poolBackup 1 capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write...
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    UdoB replied to the thread Hardwarer oder Software RAID.
    Da kann man durchaus drüber diskutieren, spätestens seit der Erfindung von ZFS :-) Ein Hardware-Raid liefert NICHT: Herstellerunabhängigkeit; transparente Kompression; garantierte Integrität; (technisch) billige Snapshots; Replikation; einfache...
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    UdoB reacted to SteveITS's post in the thread VE9.2 and Backups on cluster.. with Like Like.
    There’s an option to back up all VMs on a node.
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    Yes... I did mention that. But arming/disarming HA is _not_ the same thing as putting one node into maintenance mode - the latter function serves a completely different purpose.
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    Well..., I have two buttons at the top of the "Datacenters" --> "HA" screen: "Arm HA" and "Disarm HA" (Freeze/Ignore-dropdown).
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    UdoB reacted to jdancer's post in the thread Who runs Proxmox on the oldest hardware ? with Like Like.
    Have it running on a Dell R200 which was released back in 2007. Was running LXCs but now it's a PBS instance. Mirrored ZFS drives. Makes for good small LXC/PBS server but that's all it's good for.
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    Pulling a case of Godwins law won't make me take you more seriously. In the case of Proxmox it's quite laughable since they have a decades old track record of NOT outselling. One Proxmox developer ( I think @t.lamprecht but I might be wrong)...
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    Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have used it ;) Correct, I'm also not paying for Proxmox. But I also don't expect developers to give freebies to me. I'm trying to help in other terms, e.g. by participating in the forum or being a free beta tester ;)...
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    PBS does really, really do random writes. It needs IOPS - as many as it can get. For ZFS there is the rising problem of fragmentation of the free space --> it is not guaranteed that a single 2-4 MB chunk can be written sequentially at one...
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    There are many, many posts written about a good setup. My personal key-points (in a very small nutshell) are these: PBS must be self-contained, on separate hardware; especially when you have only one PVE (no cluster) you want to have access to...
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    Great! My own one was decommissioned last year. Finally, after (nearly) 15 years. Basically because I have much better gear for PVE now... and PBS is really hard to make it fly on such an old thing. Have fun!
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    Hey man, as today, i'm running one of this in my homelab (3 node cluster)! Yesterday i update to pve9 - i'm happy with this ultra-low energy choice. BTW, works for me too! ;)
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    Don't run 'apt upgrade' as it might not pull in all dependencies; use the official instructions instead: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#system_software_updates And here is a (another) recent thread where the same problem...