vm storage

Assumption: you use at least four identical devices for that. Mirrors, RaidZ, RaidZ2 are possible - theoretically. Technically correct answer: yes, it works. But the right answers is: no, do not do that! The recommendation is very clear: use “striped mirrors”. This results in something similar...

Hello, I'm in the process of planning out a 3-node cluster for failover and high availability and have a question about where to store the VMs. Assume the following; All servers are on a 10GB backbone All servers have SSDs for OS and data drives All 3 PVE nodes are identical. Same...

Hi, I'm planing the installation of a new proxmox instance, and I'm thinking about the storage model to follow. In my case, I will have a 2x Samsung SSD 860 PRO 250Gb disks on mirror mode for proxmox boot, then I'll create a ZFS pool of mirrors (raid10) for storing data. My initial idea was...

I have an nvme pool that I want to use for a) storing VMs b) storing mails (by a mail server run in one of the VMs) For this purpose, I have created, via command line, a ZFS pool with two datasets, "VMs" and "mail". (mail is obviously shared via nfs with a VM). I have then, in Proxmox GUI...