zfs over iscsi

  1. K

    zfs over iscsi

    HI! I'm using zfs over iscsi. Storage is named "zfs". Backend is running targetcli. I am having problems with create full clone of drive scsi0 (vm01:vm-103-disk-0) TASK ERROR: storage migration failed: Could not open /dev/tank/vm-103-disk-0 This happens most of the time. but sometime, i do...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox 8.2.4 ZFS over ISCSI - Ubuntu 24.04 ISCSI Target

    Greetings all, I'm new to Proxmox, but have been working with VMWare for years. I'm currently trying out different storage solutions for my home lab. My primary storage server has a combo of two pools: BigPool (hdds with SSD logs and cache) and BigSSD (all ssds). When I was running VMWare...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS over iSCSI with Dell Powerstore 1200T

    Hello, I currently have several Dell Powerstore 1200T storage arrays (3) which are managed by a Metro Cluster that I use for iSCSI virtualization (VMware to be transparent and everything works fine). I want to test Proxmox, and I used 3 physical servers to have a cluster of 3 hosts and I...
  4. hoffmn01

    ZFS over iSCSI with QNAP QuTS hero

    Hello everyone, I wanted to implement ZFS over iSCSI with my Proxmox-Cluster (4 nodes) and my QNAP SAN connected via 25G Ethernet. I have found a lot of forum entries on some relevant topics but I am missing a bit a general guidance. What I found is that there needs to be a "plugin"...
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    ZFS over iSCSI Multipath

    Hello I have configured classic iSCSI with LVM but no thin provisioning for me is a deal breaker, so i want to configure ZFS over iSCSI. On my PVE server i have two NICs that comunicates with my Truenas for iSCSI traffic. Each NIC is on its own network / vlan: PVE server iSCSI01 NIC: IP...
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    Choosing Correct Block Size for VMs running on iscsi over zfs.

    hey everyone, So rn I'm running the storage backend for my proxmox ve (8.2.4) box via zfs over iscsi. Trunas core box provides the iscsi backend. I have two storage pools on my truenas box: HDD_Pool: 4x 8TB WD Reds running raidz2 ( atime 12 and 128k record size) Nvme_Pool: 6x TB Samsung 990...
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    [Bug] ZFS over iSCSI mit Debian 12 als Storage

    Debian 12 verhält sich bezüglich ZVOLs anders, als es Proxmox 8.2.2 erwartet, in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-zvol.rules steht: # Persistent links for zvol # # persistent disk links: /dev/zvol/dataset_name # # NOTE: We used to also create an additional tree of zvol symlinks located at #...
  8. H

    zfs over iscsi write error

    Hello everyone, I recently came across the following problem when setting up my home server and got stuck. Setup pve1: low power intel Atom Server zfs zvol for storage (/tank/zvol/) pve: powerfull AMD Server My idea is to use pve1 24/7 and pve only when i need the Performance. So most of the...
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    ZFS over iSCSI w/TrueNAS Scale -- difficult troubleshooting

    Thanks in advance. :) TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.1.1 Proxmox 8.1.4 with 2 node cluster in a home/smb environment. Main network is 1Gbe, Storage Network is 10Gbe. Attempting to set up storage per many articles, but this one in particular by Surfrock66. All configs followed (SSH, etc) Its...
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    Whilst move storage from local-lvm to TrueNAS ZFS over iSCSI: Warning: volblocksize (4096) is less than the default minimum block size (8192).

    Hi! When I move a VM's storage from `local-lvm` to a TrueNAS Core based ZFS volume over iSCSI, I get the following warning: Task viewer: VM 102 - Move disk create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:vm-102-disk-0) Warning: volblocksize (4096) is less than the default minimum block size...
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    adding zfs over iscsi (qnap hero)

    Hi all I am trying to add QuTS Hero zfs over iscsi to proxmox v7, assuming from other posts that is free bsd i tried and failed. Anyone able to set this up? Latest version of pve and quts hero.
  12. S

    Can't boot vm after put tpm state on ZFS over iSCSI

    Hi, all. I try to put tpm state on zfs over iscsi, but when I try to boot vm, it shows me these information below Screenshot: Code: iscsiadm: No session found. /bin/swtpm exit with status 256: TASK ERROR: start failed: command 'swtpm_setup --tpmstate...
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    ZFSoverISCSI kvm: cannot create PID file

    Hi! I’m trying to setup ZFS over iSCSI. Both hypervisor and storage are Proxmox nodes. I can create VMs and take snapshots but when I try to start the VM I get a timeout. When I run the command from shell I get ‘kvm: cannot create PID file: Cannot lock pid file’ Anyone an idea how to fix it...
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    [SOLVED] Need help configuring ZFS over iSCSI

    PVE 6.4-6 on both nodes I'm trying to set up ZFS over iSCSI to share disks in my cluster. I have followed the instructions from the official docs. I confirmed that I can log in to each node with ssh -i /etc/pve/priv/zfs/192.168.1.1_id_rsa root@192.168.1.1 replacing the IP with each node's...
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    ZFS over iSCSI Lacking Container Support - How do I get around this?

    Hey all, I am trying to achieve a dual node setup where Node A is my main compute node which has SSDs. This is a SFF chassis, and the goal is to house all the VMs/Containers here (or at least the boot drive for the VMs and containers here). Node B will be the storage node with HDDs, and as you...
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    PVE Integration + ZFS over iSCSI restore fail

    Hello all! We are using PBS since last week with PVE integration. VM start fine on the iSCSI backend, cloning work too but when I tried to restore a backup (backup made from NFS backend storage and trying to restore to ZFS over ISCSI backend storage) i got an error message : Using encryption...
  17. J

    Proxmox VE Shared Storage Advice

    Hello everyone, I am building a Proxmox based VE and I am looking for advice and opinion on shared storage. My objective for this virtual environment is to have a shared storage across a cluster of Proxmox nodes in order to achieve a migration of VMs in case of failure. Currently I am looking...
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    Help setting iser transport for ZFS on ISCSI

    Hi all, I'm new to Proxmox having been running VMWare since maybe 3.5 or something. Decided to switch over because I wanted to take the cheaper path to Infiniband and then found the support in VMWare not quite there. My setup now is Proxmox server with a dual-port Mellanox ConnectX-3 card. My...
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    Accessing ZFS pool in VM

    Hi! I'm quite new to Proxmox, although I have some Linux experience previously, and I haven't found any working way to access my existing ZFS pool from an OpenMediaVault VM. Ideally, I'd like OMV to get access to the disk space directly without having to do a network share; this is purely based...
  20. S

    Probleme mit MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 / ZFS over iSCSI

    Hallo zusammen, wir betreiben einen Proxmox-Cluster mit 4 Nodes (1x Storage Proxmox 6.0-15 und 3x Nodes mit Proxmox 6.0.12). Der Storage nutzt ein mdadm-RAID10 über 8x2TB SM883 SSDs, um darüber via LIO ein iSCSI-Device für ZFS over iSCSI bereitzustellen. Wir virtualisieren aktuell bestehende...

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