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    ZFS Multidimensional Pool

    Hello there, first of all: I'm not new to Proxmox, but I'm a complete newbie at ZFS. Why I came across ZFS? I have a bunch of 2TB and 4TB Hard-Drives lying around and also 2 1TB M.2 SSD´s. At the moment I use a Hardware-Raid Controller to get a "Drive" (or better 2 Drives) into my Proxmox...
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    Optimizing Performance on Lenovo ST250 with RAID 530-8i and Mixed SAS Drives

    Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice on how to get the most performance out of my hardware. I have a Lenovo ST250 with a RAID 530-8i controller (flashing to IT mode is not an option). My disk setup is as follows: 1. 1x Intel 4520 M.2 SATA SSD (480GB) 2. 4x SAS 10K 12Gbps (900GB) 3. 2x SAS...
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    ZFS pool with mixed speed & size vdevs

    I have a fast 2TB NVME SSD and a slow 4TB SATA SSD inside a RAID0 zfs zpool. I like zfs (over lvm which I had before) for its versatility in managing storage (e.g. one pool to use, including the pve root), however I'm running into the issue that my mixed hardware slows down. With LVM, I could...
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    PBS-ZFS Storage is at 100%

    Hi Our PBS today ran out of storage, it's sitting at 100% and "zpool status" outputs "no pools available" We've been getting (os error 28) Full error log: "ERROR: Backup of VM XYZ failed - VM XYZ qmp command 'backup' failed - backup connect failed: command error: No space left on device (os...
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    [SOLVED] Failed to initialize libzfs library

    Hello, Last night I had to shutdown my server during a power outage. Prior to shutting down, everything was working as normal. I was able to do a safe shutdown before the UPS ran out of juice. This morning I turned everything back on, and since then I have been receiving a "Failed to initialize...
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    VM i/o is blocked on ZFS storage

    Greetings. I have Proxmox 8.3.2 installed on a mirror zpool with mostly default settings: # zpool list -v NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 7.27T 69.5G 7.20T...
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    Hard Disk double size when replication is active.

    Hi. I have a situation. A virtual machine has 1450GB disk. When i active the replication, the size grow very much: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT SAS0/vm-701-disk-0 2.44T 2.13T 1.01T - # zfs list -t snapshot NAME...
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    ZFS Arc using 50% of ram

    New install PVE 8.3.3, host has 256gb RAM, i have an 11TB ZFS pool (in HA with another host, identical config) I have 118gb of RAM used in VMs right now and the host shows 239gb RAM used. I read that since PVE 8.1 ARC is reduced to 10% of the host's ram so why am I getting this high usage? I...
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    Proxmox ZFS mit zwei NVME SSD's + OMV als NAS

    Hallo, ich habe bisher eine USB SSD an meiner Fritzbox und nutze das als "NAS"-Ersatz. -Folgendes passiert darauf: -Backups aus IO-Broker -Backups der Handyfotos -Netzlaufwerk für Homeoffice Ich habe seit ca. 6 Monaten einen Lenovo M710q mit Proxmox im Einsatz, auf dem einige Container...
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    [SOLVED] Restore of container backup from ZFS to LVM on a different server fails : because of compression in ZFS.

    Hi there, I have two Proxmox VE 8 servers called proxmox1 and proxmox3. The backups of proxmox1 are validated every night (copy to Debian desktop, decompress, start and ping). Proxmox3 is an old Dell Precision T1650 meant to serve as backup in case proxmox1 fails. It has a 512MB NvMe on a...
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    ZFS Space Allocation Question

    I had to break my 3-way mirror because the amount of available space was inadequate. Somehow my calculations for the total amount of required usable space was woefully off, but that is a separate discussion. I now have a RAIDZ1, with no quotas or reservations, on this or any other dataset...
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    ZFS on Linux zpool disk spin-up daemon

    The Linux runtime power management (RPM) provides everything necessary to put unused disks to sleep and wake them up when required. If properly configured this can save energy in SOHO environments where disks often idle in the night and during non office hours. However, a major drawback when...
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    Advices for configuration of high availability in a cluster

    Hi, I'm new to this virtualisation things so I'm looking for advices on how to set-up my cluster. I have 3 nodes, node1 has only one disk while nodes 2 and 3 have 2 disks each.I'd like to implement HA on this cluster but I don't want any external storage. I installed pve with zfs option on node1...
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    Error ZFSPool and crash Proxmox

    Good morning, I reinstalled Proxmox on my server and imported my zfs pool only I still get this error: pve zed[7480]: eid=522 class=data pool='VMSSD' priority=0 err=52 flags=0x808081 bookmark=2239:1:1:650 Do you know if it can be fixed?
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    disk setup confusion (where is the actual proxmox install located?)

    Hi. I have been using proxmox for a while now, but I still get confused when setting up my storage. Scenario A: I am currently setting up a homeserver for a friend who wants to experiment in a homelab. Available storage options: 500gb pcie nvme 1 TB SATA SSD 4 TB HDD This setup is for home...
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    ZFS und verwirrende Angaben bzgl der Größe

    Hallo. Diese Frage läuft sicher nicht zum ersten Mal ... aber ich möchte sie trotzdem nochmal stellen, da ich die Größenangaben bei Verwendung von ZFS-Pools weiterhin verwirrend finde. Die Situtation ist: IBM-M4-Server mit 4 Platten zu einem Z2-Pool (mit Cache). Unter Disks -> ZFS sehe ich...
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    Using ZFS pool

    Hi I'm having a zfs pool RAIDZ1, which includes 4 x 10TB disk. When using this pool in a file server (SMB and NFS) for different purposes, which is better way to share it in LXC or in VM: mount the whole pool as a one big disk (mp1), and use directory structure to share the resource, like...
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    Whonix: How to set mountpoint to VM's disk

    Dear all, I am running PROXMOX 8.2.2 for a while with several VM and ist works very fine. It was possible for me to set up Whonix gateway and workstation and get it running. Now I discovered the following problem: -I have several VMs and a zpool with several volumes used as mass storage...
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    Disk einer VM kopieren für eine andere VM

    Guten Tag zusammen, ich versuche nun seit geraumer Zeit herauszufinden wie ich eine existierende Disk einer Virtuellen Maschine A (id=108) kopieren und dann einer virtuellen Maschine B (id=119) zur Verfügung stellen kann. Ich habe für meine virtuellen Maschinen ein ZFS eingerichtet "vmpool"...
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    New ZFS setup on new install feels "off" somehow

    Current system - CPU is a Xeon E5-2697 v4 384 GB of memory x6 Seagate st8000nm0075 8TB drives connected in HBA mode through Dell PERC H730P Just spun up and migrated over to this "new to me" server. Was running a hardware RAID 10 for many years previously with x4 of the 8TB Seagate drives...