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    Help! Need to order parts before the 1st

    Hey everyone thanks for the quick help. I have my current host on an r610 with the perc6i doing the raids. I have a raid1 boot with 2x 120gb ssds. And a raid 1 3x 500gb hdds, and another single 500gb hdd. However, i now want to do it right and get an HBA and finally have smart info. My plan is...
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    Split SSD

    Hi i’m new add proxmox. I have a nuci5 with a 500 gb ssd disk and will install proxmox on the ssd disk. But how can i set that i use 100 gb of that disk for the proxmox and the rest for vm storage?
  3. jfassiano

    SSD replacement question

    Hi guys, although my server configuration is very "homy" I have a questions regarding SSD. Yes, it's a consumer SSD, we're a small company in Argentina, USD dollars scarce here, we buy the stuff we can afford. The thing is that my disk have the "wear out" parameter in 10%, which means the SSD...
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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    Hello, I am preparing to order hardware for a 3-node hyper-converged cluster. I won't bore you with exact configuration details but I would be thankful for some general advice on this point. To optimise performance with a limited budget (all SSD storage is not an option) i have read that it...
  5. U

    How should I configure my drives

    I recently got a great deal on a used Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF that I plan to run PVE 6.3 on. The system has a single M.2 NVME slot and only uses a single SATA power cable coming from the motherboard that splits out to a standard sized SATA power and a slimline SATA power that connects to the...
  6. X

    Buy another SSD to OSD

    Hi, please, can you advice me please? I have only 2 SSD in OSD (1x SSD per node) and I want add another SSD to OSD to 3 node, which is only for ceph mon and ceph mgr. I have 2x SSD INTEL DC4500, which is not making and I want buy Intel SSD 960GB D3-S4510, but this model is newer with a...
  7. N

    DL380 gen 8 ZFS stripped mirror of 4x SSD poor performance

    Hi all, I'm following this forum from a couple of years up to now, getting all the best knowledge from the community and solving all the small problems that I've encountered in Proxmox VE. Now it's my turn to submit a new issue on our new installation over an HP DL380 gen 8 server with this...
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    Intel nuc und zwei platten

    Hallo Liebe Leute, Steige gerade ein in die Sache Proxmox. Frage an die Profis Auf dem ersten Schritt es zu begreifen scheitere ich. Zum Ausgang: habe einen Intel nuc mit 2x260GB SSD Und möchte davon soviel wie möglich für meine VM's haben. Jetzt stehe ich vor der Frage ext4 zfs xfs raid 0...
  9. C

    Proxmox on two disks

    Hey Guys I am really new to proxmox. And trying to figure all out. My plan is to install some lxc on my Intel nuc for my home needs. I've got a Intel nuc with 2x 250GB SSD inside. How do I get the most of it ? Ext4 will use only one disk? Xfs with raid 0 ? (I know if one disk fail all is...
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    PVE 6.2 - SSD speeds how to tune

    Hello, I am new to Proxmox, and this is the first time I am using LVM so I am not yet fully used to how it works. I installed PVE on a consumer SSD (Samsung 860 Evo 500GB) and had a 2TB WD Black HDD for some VMs. No ZFS or Ceph is being used, and disks are single drives in LVM. At first I...
  11. K

    Storage Help - Proxmox Newbie

    Hi all, Extremely new to proxmox and have never really used Linux before. I've got two physical machines that I've put together in a cluster, although when configuring them I've accidentally put one on ZFS storage and one to whatever the default is. I've been able to setup vms on my server...
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    Storage für Proxmox VE Host

    Hallo, ich bin gerade auf der Suche nach SSDs für einen neuen Proxmox VE Host für mein Homelab. Ich möchte zwei SSDs in einem ZFS Mirror betreiben, auf dem die Container, VMs und Proxmox selbst installiert wird. Für Backups, ISOs und Container Vorlagen benutze ich eine NFS Freigabe auf einen...
  13. Dunuin

    [SOLVED] guests swap partition completely rewritten every VM reboot

    Hi, I monitored my proxmox host with iostat found alot of "zd" devices writing once 8386556kb and then nothing changes. Most of my VMs got a vdev with thin provisioning and dicard of 8GB size for swapping (but rarely used because of swappiness of 1). Every time I reboot a VM it adds 8386556kb...
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    Can't initialize NVMe SSD disk with GPT

    I'm getting this error in proxmox when trying to initialize an empty NVMe SSD drive (Samsung 970 Evo plus) - Invalid partition data! TASK ERROR: command '/sbin/sgdisk /dev/nvme0n1 -U R' failed: exit code 2
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    Schedule trim (fstrim) job on Hosts/VMs

    Do I need to schedule fstrim for SSD disks (or even HDD?..) on Proxmox 6.2 ? And if I do, how exactly do I schedule such a job? I've searched online but didn't find anything except for scheduling backups... Thank you,
  16. M

    ZFS or something else?

    Hi guys, I have read a lot of threads about zfs vs ext4 and zfs in general. I’m still looking for some answers. Can you guys help me get more insigt into creating a good setup for my homeserver? Currently I use an HP elitedesk with 3 ext4 disks, 1 hdd for root, 1 ssd for VM’s, 1 hdd for data...
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    Install containers/KVM on formatted ext4 lvm from /dev/pve/data(thin) on an SSD or NAS drive(ironwolf or skyhawk)?

    I have done this twice with a WD green and purple(both died, green was not suited for 24/7 anyways and purple was 2nd hand and I got cheap). Now I've got an SSD, where it initializes /dev/pve/data to make use of a big chunk of the SSD's capacity, so I what I usually do is make use of it via...
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    1 Transcend 128GB SSD + 1 4TB Ironwolf HDD = Good idea?

    So my purple western digital 2TB hard drive decided to die last week good thing I was able to still recover the data because I converted the thin volume(1.7TB of it) as an ext4 partition where I can store all my files, and the root fs took only less than 100GB where the boot partition resides ...
  19. J

    Threadripper Proxmox build, need suggestions

    [cross posted on STH] I work in a research lab that we recently purchased a Threadripper 3970x workstation from a System Integrator. It is a better better deal than Dell-Intel, which would have cost us twice as much. The role is to run Proxmox as base Hypervisor and run multiple Windows and...
  20. N

    SSD Thin Provisioning / TRIM

    Hallo Forum-User, ich besitze ein Intel NUC mit einer Crucial BX500 (120GB SSD). Auf dem Host ist bereits fstrim.timer aktiviert. Jetzt habe ich in der Anleitung gelesen, dass ich dies ebenfalls in den VM's aktivieren muss, dazu muss das Laufwerk aber "Thin Provisioning" untersützten. Dazu muss...

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