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bbgeek17 · Feb 25, 2026

Post in thread 'Storage for small clusters, any good solutions?'

Feb 24, 2026

I have thus far migrated 5 of our clusters from Vmware to proxmox using a variety of storage systems. (on top of all our new deployments being Proxmox)
We did not elect to go down the ceph route for some of the reasons you mentioned as well as the additional maintenance expertise/overhead.
For smaller sites with 2 hosts ZFS replication works great and is cheap to setup.
Other sites we had existing Netapp storage using NFS and FC. NFS is simple to setup and makes the migration from Vmware very quick and easy but the performance leaves much to be desired, even with dual 40gb nics on the...

bbgeek17 · Oct 3, 2025

[TUTORIAL] Thread 'Inside Proxmox VE 9 SAN Snapshot Support'

Aug 12, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I'm excited to share a deep dive into one of the notable new feature in PVE9: the enhanced snapshot functionality designed for legacy SANs. This feature represents a meaningful step forward in expanding PVE's compatibility with traditional enterprise storage setups, something many of us have been eager to see... and something I've answered a lot of questions about over the years

Inside Proxmox VE 9 SAN Snapshot Support: https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-qcow-snapshots-on-lvm/

Our latest technote dives into the architecture, how the feature operates...

bbgeek17 · Mar 29, 2023

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/new-cluster-storage-solution.124353/

bbgeek17 · Jun 18, 2021

https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox/

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