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    Optimization for fast dump/backup

    Hi all, I've got a couple of Proxmox servers (single no HA) with SATA drives and getting a backup is a real pain. It takes 50 minutes or so to get a 60-70GB of backup. I'm planning to migrate a few of these servers into one new much more powerful server with the following drives/setup: 4 x...
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    [SOLVED] Optimal Disk Layout to avoid troubles with Storage Migration

    Help! :) I have four servers with 3x drive bays and have them populated with either 2x Samsung SM863 or 2x Intel S3610. The drives are set up as a ZFS mirrored vdev with both ROOT and data being on the pair. One bay is open on each server. Normally I/O load on each server is low - iowait is...
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    What hardware do you suggest for homelab performance?

    Hello all, for some time now I have been on a journey looking for a way of virtualising the workloads I toy around with at home. Ultimately I decided to shift from the free version of VMWare to proxmox because of the lack of features in VMWare for an unlicenced system and ended up on Proxmox...
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    running vm from ext. hdd

    Right now Im using proxmox on single intel nuc with wd red hdd. Fine. Im thinking about install proxmox to SSD hdd and running all vm from usb 3.0 wd red hdd. is it possible?
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    Ceph performance

    I need some input on tuning performance on a new cluster I have setup The new cluster has 2 pool (one for HDDs and one for SSDs). For now it's only three nodes. I have separate networks: 1 x 1Gb/s NIC for corosync, 2 x bonded 1GB/s NICs for ceph and 1 x 1GB/s NIC for the Proxmox bridged VM's...
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    Proxmox-Host auf SSD oder HDD?

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe aktuell folgendes Festplatten-Setup: 2 x 2,5TB HDD Da ich einige VMs habe, die mir leider zu langsam laufen, würde ich mir bei meinem Hoster eine 500GB SSD einbauen lassen. Würde es sich lohnen, das komplette Hostsystem auf die neue SSD zu legen oder kann ich Proxmox...
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    Ceph storage mix SSD and HDD

    Good afternoon, colleagues! I have a problem with the implementation of Ceph storage. My configuration: There is a Supermicro Superblade chassis, which has 20 physical servers. Each server has 2 processors, 64 GB of RAM, 1xSDD 32GB for OS, 1xSSD and 1xHDD for Ceph There is a desire to collect...
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    wearout indicator

    We are running proxmox on intel ssd's for over a year now. Although there is not very much disk activity, the wearout indicator is still 0%, even after using it for about a year now and I'm wondering if this is correct? Attached are two screenshots of what we see in the GUI of proxmox. Can...
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    Looking for suggestions on disk setups.

    Hi, Im thinking to redo my setup regarding disk setup Supermicro SuperServer 4 servers in 2 unit chassie 96 Xeon threads >512Gib RAM and 6 disk slots per host with 10Gib network. Current setup is PVE5.2 with Ceph and for some stupid reason I was running the drives in raid 5, works quite well...
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    2 SSDs as cache - Striped?

    I have 2x 512Gb Samsung 860 PRO drives (MLC) ready to go in to my pool of spinning disks as cache. But I wonder what the best set up would be for this. I want to have both write and read cache but to be able to max out my 10gbe connection they need to be striped. So should i stripe these drives...
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    [SOLVED] Ceph: creating pool for SSD only

    Hi, in case I want to create a pool with SSDs only that is separated from HDDs I need to manipulate the CRUSH map and enter another root. Is my assumption correct? THX
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    Ceph Cluster Installation - why fast SSD for OS?

    Hi, in the wiki you provide this recommendation: "We install Proxmox VE on a fast and reliable enterprise class SSD, so we can use all bays for OSD (Object Storage Devices) data." Unfortunately there's not more information for this architectural design. Could you please explain why the OS...
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    Hyper converged setup

    Hi I'm going to build a new environment to host virtual machines. Most of them are webservers, some database servers and mailservers. On most VM's, cPanel or another hosting control panel will be installed for hosting websites. I'm looking into Proxmox, what the possibilities are versus the...
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    rapid ssd wear out!

    Hi, I have two machines (in different locations) which has exactly same hardware as well as proxmox versions (4) running. The first machine was deployed two years ahead of the second one. The first server has more network transactions than the second one. It is strange that smartctl states...
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    Ceph: How to specifiy DB device for Bluestore OSD

    How to specify DB device (not WAL device) for Bluestore OSD? The Proxmox documentation of pveceph (pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html) clearly shows how to specify a WAL device, but not a DB device. pveceph createosd /dev/sdn -wal_dev /dev/sdb Having used this method, within the...
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    Proxmox with SSD (SO) and HDD (data) config.

    I have a small server with little RAM (not enough for ZFS) and with two disks. One 256GB SSD and another 4TB HDD. I installed proxmox on the SSD. NAME MAJ: MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8: 0 0 232.9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8: 1 0 1M 0 part ├─sda2 8: 2 0 256M 0 part / boot / efi └─sda3 8: 3 0...
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    Throw this SSD to thrashbin or leave it working?

    Hellou this is Samsung 850 PRO smarty table. ``` $ smartctl -a /dev/sdh | grep -E 'Wear_Leveling_Count'\|'LBAs'\|'Model'\|'Number'\|'Firmware' Model Family: Samsung based SSDs Device Model: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 128GB Serial Number: S24ZNXAH21XXXXX Firmware Version: EXM02B6Q 177...
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    Proxmox and non-enterprise SSDs

    Hope everyone's day is going well, just a quick question. I've been trying to find out about how Proxmox handles SSDs. There are various posts from years ago mentioning that Proxmox kills SSDs with the amount of read and write cycles on SSDs. Is this still the case? I run a homelab Proxmox...
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    LSI 2208 and TRIM - live without?

    Here is setup I try to do: I have LSI 2208 raid controller with cache and bbu, and 4 SSD disks connected to it. I can not change the firmware, so HBA is not an option and I also don't want to loose cache and bbu. I would like to use RAID10 setup out of these 4 ssds. The probles is that 2208 not...
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    SSDs: volume with h/w RAID or ZFS?

    Keep at my hands nice modern server with 4 SSDs on board, I still can't find the better way to utilize it. I can use built-in h/w RAID controller (LSI card, with cache and BBU, not sure for model) and build, say, RAID10 out of these disks. Or I can export these disks as 4 independent volumes...

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