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Generally this looks good. Does the proxmox installer not create vmbr0? If this were a bog standard Linux install, the process of assigning a static IP to an interface, and then turning the interface into a bridge would not work. Instead you would create the bridge, and then assign 192.168.2.10...

That's odd. As long as the static IP is in the same subnet as the subnet that DHCP is handing out, you should be just fine. Can you give me the IP and netmask of your desktop/laptop as well as the IP and netmask for your Proxmox machine?

You'll have to ssh into the new installation, and run zpool import and that will show you the list of zpools that can be imported. From there do zpool import <yourzpoolname> and your zpool will be associated with your new installation and automatically import on reboot. You may have to add -f to...

Your Proxmox machine will need 2 NICs. The NIC that connects to the rest of your LAN will have an IP address outside of the scope of DHCP. The NIC that connects to your cable modem can be setup in one of two ways. 1. Create a bridge network, and give it a 192.168.100.* address (as long as it's...

Well, that all looks fine, so you should be able to add it in the GUI. You also mentioned that you tried to add the storage at the CLI. Were you trying to do that by editing /etc/pve/storage.cnf? I worry about using a work around when you should be able to just make the storage entry in the...

Head do the command line and run zfs get all yourzpool Or if you've got a dataset created, zfs get all yourzpool/yourdataset

Is the dataset being read only, or not yet mounted?

Maybe do apt-get update prior to your search for fio. fio is the appropriate package name.

In my mind, traditional RAID controllers are on their way out. Next generation file systems, and ZFS specifically, are only going to get better as time goes on. Sure, you can get a server with a RAID controller, use the familiar ext4 on top of LVM, and you'll get some, if not most of the...

All of that is handled in the Logical Volume Manager. It's been a while since I worked with it, but I think in this particular setup, it's going to be a bit of a pain to extend. If you run pvs I would bet that /dev/sda3 is listed as the physical volume, which means it only sees that 60GB of...

You can add a ZFS dataset as a Directory entry in Proxmox. If you do this, Proxmox will create the typical directory structure you see with ext4 (dump, images, templates, etc.). I think the biggest reason people choose this option is familiarity. People can see the .qcow2 files and move them...

I've used a PERC 6 series in the past to present multiple single disk arrays to Proxmox, and then use ZFS to bring those disks together. The performance was beyond abysmal regardless of the zpool configuration. I'd say go with option 2. RAID controllers have nothing to offer except headaches.

Is that 2016 Essentials, by chance? I've switched numerous Win 2016 VMs from IDE or SATA to VirtIO using the process you described of adding a secondary disk to install the driver, then changing the primary disk. It works reliably with every version of 2016 I've encountered, except Essentials...

When Proxmox uses ZFS, it uses a zvol for each virtual disk, rather than a dataset with qcow2 files. The performance is better using zvols. If you're dead set on using qcow2 files, you can create a dataset, and point Proxmox to it as a Directory. I don't know how well this works, if at all, in a...

It's been a while since I used templates in Proxmox, but IIRC, yes, you should get a new MAC when you clone from template. If you're not big on the name of the computer, and you don't care about the SID, there's probably not a whole lot useful in the sysprep process. I'd recommend running...

I believe the only issue with SIDs and GUIDs is if you add two or more VMs with the same SID to the an Active Directory environment. I don't know what bad things, just that "weird things start to happen." But if they're not part of the same AD environment, you'll probably be fine. If you want...

If you've got a completely separate storage setup for your VMs, and your USB stick only holds the Proxmox installation, then I'd say backup the configuration files from /etc/pve/qemu-server/, re-OS on a new USB stick, add your ZFS storage back giving it the same name in Proxmox as it had before...

If I understand what you're trying to do correctly, I believe the dd command will work here. Proxmox uses zvols for virtual disks on ZFS file systems. In order to access those, you'll want to look in /dev/zvol/rpool/. In there you will find a reference to each virtual disk. For example, we'll...

So, apparently the "written" field will tell you how much new data is contained in a snapshot, if I were to add those up, I get yet another value for space used. I can't imagine that transferring snapshots is the only way to achieve even somewhat accurate accounting for space utilization. That...

You mentioned setting zfs_arc_max, are you also setting zfs_arc_min? I've had similar problems, and they turned out to be the arc_min getting so small, ZFS couldn't operate properly, and took the whole system down. Best I can tell, Linux still tries to cache file system data from ZFS in it's...