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    Does a Proxmox ZFS Cluster adds a security against ransomware?

    Hi everyone, this topic is maybe a bit off-topic here: I am currently investigating in deploying a ZFS Proxmox cluster (2 nodes, 1 quorum device) in our company. When watching countless videos and reading lot of informations about proxmox. Somewhere in my brain I did store the information...
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    New VE installation on 3 SSDs - best setup

    Hey, Just built a small home lab and I'm new to Proxmox VE. I have 3 SSDs in my small server (with 8 GB RAM, will upgrade to 16GB eventually). 1x 256GB SSD (on a slow SATA3 port) 2x 1TB SSD (both on a faster SATA6 port) One of the VMs is going to be a TrueNAS and the other one using docker...
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    Best practice für pools

    Hallo zusammen, werde meinen server komplett neu aufsetzen. Folgende Anwendungsfälle habe ich bisher angedacht: Proxmox auf 2 x 240gb SSD (ZRAID1) VM Container auf 2 x TB SSD: Hier nen LVN Thin benutzen? Möchte auch Snapshots für LXC container machen können. Spezielle Daten, auf die möglichst...
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    task txg_sync hung task

    Hi there, I am starting to see these errors on one of my nodes, I searched the forum but can't find a definite answer. I have plenty of ram and the drives are CMR, I don't get what can cause this, a weird behaviour is that the system will keep on running but the network will go, making it...
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    [Quick Question] External disks in VM backup

    Hi I just installed PBS and I really love it, however currently due to my raid config on my ZFS datastore I only have roughly 4TB space for backups (Just using about 200GB) No I have one VM that servers as my NAS where I passed through a full disk (4TB SSD (Roughly 400GB used)), now I'd like to...
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    [Help] Can't recognize boot disk after disk replacement in the bootable ZFS raidz mirror.

    Hi all I just replaced a bad disk with a new one in the bootable ZFS RAIDZ mirror by copying the partition table from the old disk and using the zpool replace command. Everything went well, but then I rebooted my server without running the proxmox-boot-tool. Now, I can't boot the server due to...
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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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    Optimale Festplattenkonfiguration für ein Proxmox-Cluster mit Hochverfügbarkeit / Replikation

    Moin, ich habe eine Frage zu der optimalen Festplattenkonfiguration für mein Proxmox-Cluster mit Hochverfügbarkeit. Ich habe ein Cluster aus 3 mini-PCs. Node1: Minisforum GK41 mit einer m.2 256GB SSD (i.d.R. fürs Monitoring, ressourcenarme VMs) [Verfügbare Anschlüsse: 1xSSD, 1x m.2] Node2...
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    Unable to create ZFS storage

    # /sbin/zpool create -o ashift=12 vm-vault mirror /dev/disk/by-id/ata-CT2000BX500SSD1_2308E6AFBF41 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-CT2000BX500SSD1_2308E6AFBF9C cannot label 'sda': failed to detect device partitions on '/dev/sda1': 19 Error preparing/labeling disk. TASK ERROR: command '/sbin/zpool create -o...
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    zfs pool wont mount, all disks healthy

    I have (had?) a ZFS pool setup through proxmox that stopped working. All the disks in shows up in Node > Disks, with "SMART: PASSED" but "Mounted: No" root@homelab:~# zpool status no pools available root@homelab:~# zpool history no pools available root@homelab:~# zpool import tank cannot...
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    Zfs reboot or reload disk

    Hi, i have a problem with my disk (hdd) in a zfs configuration. I have one disk m.2 for proxmox, one ssd for vm and 2 4TB hdd with zfs. The problem I think is proxmox that reboot one of the hdd every few seconds and now it has 5023 power cycle. Is it correct? Beacuse when the disk reboot is...
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    Flexible storage options within Proxmox?

    I'm looking for possible solutions to have "flexible" storage within Proxmox. I'm finding some vague information regarding adding/removing drives to a ZFS pool, I'm confused as to what a VDEV is within a ZFS pool, I'm feeling overwhelmed and I'm hoping for some guidance. Please allow me to...
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    Stuck at the initramfs

    Hi, I've been stuck starting proxmox on initramfs for almost a whole day. I'm using promox ve 8.2 installed on two disks in RAID 1 on ZFS. The main screen says: "Failed to load ZFS Modules. Manually load the modules and exit." It also says to load the zfs modules as root but I have no idea how...
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    To ZFS or not

    Recently my NAS (QNAP TS251) died, so I've been the last two weeks deciding how to replace it. I don't wan't another QNAP or similar (Synology). And also I am taking the opportunity to change other things at home, as for example extract multiple services from home assistant, run home assistant...
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    ZFS pool not auto-mounting at boot after zpool upgrade fix

    A very minor issue but one I'm hoping there's an easy fix for. In brief, I made the mistake of running zpool upgrade a while back which of course borked my system rendering it unbootable. Thankfully, I found the specific page that describes how to fix it and managed to unbork things so that the...
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    /var/tmp/espmounts/7276-6706/EFI/proxmox/6.5.13-6-pve: No space left on device when installing new kernel

    I have a single node install with PVE 8.2.4 and ZFS Mirror as boot drive. I was doing apt update and was suggested to do a apt --fix-broken install. I ran that and got this: root@pve:~# apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state...
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    Mirrored VDEVS striped + GC > SSD / NVME usage

    Hello everyone! We currently have a PBS server in ZFS with a mirror pool (2 x 4TB HDD 7200trs 128mo cache). We would like to add a second one to that pool (mirrored vdevs striped) in order to gain performance (RAID10-like). Our idea is also to improve Garbage Collector performance (maximizing...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS pool almost full despite reducing zvol size

    I have a PVE host that is currently reporting that "local-zfs" is nearly full. There is only one guest with one virtual disk stored in this pool; the virtual disk was originally 50TB and I have since reduced it to 43TB using zfs set volsize=43T rpool/data/vm-301-disk-0. Anyone experience this...
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    How to configure Zram on ZFS

    Hi pve users, I recently finished installing my services on the proxmox server running on zimaboard 432. The installation is on two mirrored SATA disks with ZFS. Since I have the version with 4GB of soldered RAM, the memory runs out immediately, at the moment I only use four containers which...
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    Proxmox Cluster Improvements Ideas / Questions for small business

    We moved the hardware we had on-hand to Proxmox a year ago and now looking ahead to what's next (Fine tuning, improve reliability, and best practices). This is for a small business of around 10 users with a small amount of data (1.5 TB). The data is mostly spreadsheets, documents, and Access...