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Fair enough, experience speaks volumes! :) The problem I have is that it is not that I need to virtualize this Windows installation, it is that I have applications on there and I do not feel like reinstalling them all and Windows won't update because some DLLs or something are jacked up. I...

I guess really a "mac client" is not what is needed so much as an option to easily provision or provide for the automatic provisioning of an SMB share. If that were the case, then Time Machine could simply perform its regular backups and point itself at the PBS, no? That would seem a less...

I am curious, is there any reason that the virtio drivers could not be installed into Windows environment in precedence to performing a Clonezilla migration of the disk image? I know that VMware will insert and configure its own drivers whence it performs a conversion/migration of a VM but I do...

SomeUser, Might I ask what SCSI controller and as well which network card type you used? Stuart

All, Well my original thinking was that I wanted to use ZFS directly (with RAIDZ) on the Drobos as the drives are a bit older and that would also have given me the ability to have snapshots too. However, the Drobos (its been a while since I played with them) do not really allow for direct...

bbgeek17, Ah, I see said the blind man as he picked up the hammer and saw! The Drobos themselves (at least the models I have, b800i) do not support ZFS. It will allow iSCSI connectivity to them however. Thus, I am impelled to think that if TrueNAS can connect to them as iSCSI targets and then...

bbgeek17, I'd be fine with looking at modifying the plugin, where do I get the source for it and instructions for compiling it (if required)? If I am understanding you correctly then, the Drobo needs only to speak iSCSI and not itself support ZFS as once ProxMox has iSCSI access to the Drobo...

ZFS over iSCSI (as is in ProxMox) requires the ability to ssh into the array, correct? I am not sure (will have to check) if the Drobo has this capability. If I can eliminate the need for the QCOW2 layer, all the better. Speed is not a huge deal to me as it is a test/lab environment for me as...

I have not thought about this in a while, although perhaps a different solution might work. If I were to use (for example) OpenMediaVault (or I suppose TrueNAS SCALE) to connect to the Drobos via iSCSI, ZFS them by making them into a vdev and pool and then enable the NFS sharing option on ZFS...

Fiona, Thank you for the response. I will give that a try. My end state solution was simply to run: sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=65536 -o extended_l2=off -o preallocation=metadata -o compression_type=zlib -o size=500G -o lazy_refcounts=off -o refcount_bits=16...

ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am running the latest ProxMox kernel (5.19) and ProxMox works rather nices on this system (granted it is a "light weight" server, if you can even call this system a server!). The network card in it is a Realtek (as depicted herein below from lspci). The...

ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am seeing this issue when I try to create a 500GB HD via NFS. Is there a way to see the actual qemu-img command that ProxMox is trying to issue to build the qcow2 file? Presuming I had the precise command being run and then wanted to run it, how would I...

+1 for the mac client :)

ProxMox users, developers, et alia: Worthy of notation was that I found it much easier and simpler to ZFS all my drives, install the nfs-kernel-server set sharenfs=on and add an NFS mount to the datacenter and call it a day! This got me the surety of ZFS RAIDZ coupled with the east of NFS for...

ProxMox users, developers, et alia: I am seeing the same problem, when I read Alwin say "If that's the interface for Ceph, yes" it did not immediately seem obvious to me how one determines or otherwise sets forth which interface Ceph should use? My vmbr0 is plugged into a trunk port on my...

ProxMox user, developers, et alia: I have a 4 node cluster and I attempted to install CEPH on one of my cluster members and succeeding what appeared to me a successful installation of the packages I got a "got timeout" with a spinning circle just in precedence to where I should be clicking...

Ah, wonderful! It was grayed out so I never even clicked on it...but I was able to type in 16K. Does that matter that I am doing it after having created the pool or I should delete the pool and recreate it telling it 16K?

I have looked at the GUI and the ZFS menu, can you tell me where you were able to set the blocksize to 16k? Stuart

Is there a manner by which one can set the time interval to be something less than 30 days? I am thinking setting it to say 2 hours, everything clears out and then I set it back to 30 days, that could work? Stuart

I edited this posting because I just realized the solution! I have a cluster I built and 2 of the systems are running with ZFS on them and one is running EXT4. The EXT4 system has "?" next to "local-lvm" and when a VM was migrated to the EXT4 based node it worked fine, but whence I tried to...