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Install Proxmox on a Dell R510 server (12 SCSI/SATA bays) with the following criteria: UEFI boot ZFS mirrored boot drives Large Drive support (> 2TB) SSD-backed caching (a Sun F20 flash accelerator with 96GB of cache on 4 chips) Home File Server There were lots of “gotchas” in the process...

I have zpools defined by-id. They work fine when proxmox is installed and loading. But they show UNAVAIL when using the install disk in debug mode (debug - CTL-D - abort). Even an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade doesn't work (so it isn't something as simple as a newer zfs package). Can anyone...

I have read the arguments about this -- essentially proxmox's position is that an EFI boot partition represents a single point of failure and so it is nonsensical. I get that. But politely, if a person installs the EFI partition to all of the RAID boot drives, then that argument is rendered...

On a fresh install of Proxmox on baremetal with RAID1/zfs, proxmox makes a very poor choice - it builds the RAID array using /dev/sdx notation (going totally against everything recommended by zfs). For many reasons /dev/sdx is a very BAD idea since it doesn't take much rebooting or messing...

30 year computer guy has spent weeks playing and reading the fine manual and still has virtualization questions for people a whole lot smarter than I am: Short version - I need help sharing hardware (details below): ZFS to containers, Optical drives to any guest os (VM or LXC), dogging down...