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    pbs disk throughput and layout etc

    hi there, i've read quite a few posts about that pbs should be flash based due to the small chunk size and its effect on the throughput. I would agree however storing backups on flash is still quite an expensive proposition at the moment. Currently we deploy a backup server with spinning disks...
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    l2arc vs meta device

    hi there, I know that PBS is using a absolute ton of tiny files, and as such is very IO intensive. As a result I think an all SSD is recommended however this is not very cost effective. We currently use a all HDD pool and i've been looking at improving speeds. does an L2ARC which stores meta...
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    shutdown host, vms not shutdown

    hi there, I have a machine that I regularly shutdown and so far the startup/shutdown sequence always seems to work: on boot of host all vms and containers get started on shutdown of host all vms and containers get shutdown and I see a task appear. until recently, now I see: on boot of host...
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    [SOLVED] cluster issues after adding node

    hi all, i've been scratching my head around a strange issue with a cluster. I originally have two nodes: node1 node2 these two nodes are not in the same subnet in a cluster and both are working fine. Last night I added a new cluster member: node3 and since I have done this i've observed...
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    ZFS auto load key / TPM

    Hello, I have a proxmox server remotely in a not-so-extremely-secure location. I can't change this due to various restricting factors, however I would like to encrypt the zfs drives. Doing this is relatively simple, however can we load the encryption key on boot and preferably from say TPM or...
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    swap rpool os disk / copy proxmox settings

    Hi all, I searched the forum and didn't see what I was looking for. If I didn't search properly apologies. I am currently running proxmox on a set of HDD's and I want to move this to an SSD. I don't want to re-install ideally as I would have to setup all the settings again. is there an easy...