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    How to Install Boot RAID-1 Without proxmox-boot-tool/system.d?

    Appreciate the suggestion. I was hoping for another solution, that only requires the Proxmox installer. Alas, first installing Debian is the path that I will be taking now. There appears to be no way to get today's Proxmox installer to create an LVM boot RAID-1 out of two EXT4 or xfs drives...
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    How to Install Boot RAID-1 Without proxmox-boot-tool/system.d?

    My two possible pve hosts are incompatible with proxmox-boot-tool, resulting in boot RAID-1 corruption and failure to boot. I am not seeking to discuss the bug, I already spent 6 days with little sleep to be able do reproduce it 100% of the time. Instead, I am seeking a pve installer option...
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    Writing LTO-8 Tape at Full Speed - How Many SSD vdevs Needed?

    Greetings, I am looking for real-world performance figures from somebody who has actually done this: how many SSD-based vdevs are needed in practice to write to an LTO-8 drive at full speed? Assuming reasonably-priced, good quality, consumer-grade SSDs, for example 4TB Samsung EVO 870. (Not...
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    Is it Wise to Enable SR-IOV in my NICs for my Proxmox Use Cases?

    Thank you tremendously for making it clear to me that I was about to make a really dumb mistake. Much appreciated!
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    Is it Wise to Enable SR-IOV in my NICs for my Proxmox Use Cases?

    Greetings, I have a Dell PowerEdge R730xd that came with a 2x1G + 2xSFP+ Broadcom 57800 NIC. The host OS is presently PVE 7.1-10. The original purpose of this system was to operate as a large Plex server using TrueNAS Core (with SAS PCIe passthrough) for storage, Ubuntu (with GPU passthrough)...