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    ZFS - SSD storage setup?

    Thanks! It sounds like I'm along the right lines with my SSDs then - I set them up as 2 mirrors in a pool so I have ~1TB storage space. I was a bit unsure due to the idea that if I lost two drives in the same mirror, I'd be in trouble, but in reality I should have backups and alerts when a drive...
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    ZFS - SSD storage setup?

    Hi all, I have a machine with a 4x 2.5" hotswap bay. I also have four 500gb SSD drives. The machine also has a 500gb NvME M.2 drive on board. I keep changing my mind about the best way to set this up. I had the idea I would great 2x mirrors on the four drives, giving me just under 1TB of...
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    Can't communicate with guest using certain NICs

    Yep, so I plugged in an Intel I350-based card and it worked straight away! Connections are now bridging correctly. No idea what is wrong with the Realtek, but I think I'll avoid that chipset in the future.
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    Can't communicate with guest using certain NICs

    Just to update this - have been trying for several hours over the past few days. My best guess is that the drivers or the card itself doesn't support bridge mode connections. I can't find anything to support this theory but it's literally just bridging the connection that doesn't work. In all...
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    Can't communicate with guest using certain NICs

    Another thing to add, I tried using PCI passthrough to actually pass the Realtek card through to a Windows guest, and connectivity was fine then as well.
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    Can't communicate with guest using certain NICs

    Hi all, Sorry - first post on here.. I've tried to figure this out, but I'm totally stumped. I have a server I'm using as a testbed for some VMs, just testing things out using Proxmox at home. The machine only had one on-board NIC, and a Broadcom gigabit PCIE NIC. All worked straight away...