zfs

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    Upgrading to larger boot drives

    I've got 3 pve nodes in a cluster, one of which has 2 512gb ssds in zfs raid 1, with the other 2 exactly the same, but with 128gb. I recently bought some new drives and want to upgrade those 2 128gb to 512gb. However upon looking into it I can't really find an "official" way to do this, some...
  2. 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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    [SOLVED] ZFS storage total size doesn't match.

    I have 6 512GB SSD drives, which is configured as SINGLE zpool with TWO RAIDZ1 vdev for balancing write-speed and redundancy. Naviely, I should get a 2TB ZFS storage in my pve node, I named the storage as "Tank". But zfs list command tells me, I've got about 1.79TB total space of Tank. ZFS...
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    ZFS Mount showing less size than actual zpool size

    Hello, I have a very peculiar case of which I did not find any solution elswhere. I have a Proxmox VE 8.2.4 running on my homelab server. I have a 256 SSD as my boot drive and one 620GB HDD for some of my data drive. The HDD is configured as a zfs pool (ID: WdcZfs) with the entire 620GB for its...
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    Who is using a RAID controller?

    Should I sell the RAID controllers in each of my R740s and just put Mini H330 HBA controllers in? The general consensus seems to be to use ZFS, so why waste a PCIe slot on these things?
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    [SOLVED] rsync to vm crashes proxmox host

    I currently have the problem that my Proxmox host crashes at random times. My first thought was that CEPH was the problem, so I removed it from my cluster. After removing CEPH, everything runs more stable but I still experience host crashes. While moving data from my synology NAS to my TrueNas...
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    Limited hardware Proxmox setup. Need advice.

    Hello, I have a handful of baremetal servers that I would like to migrate to proxmox vms. As I move the data off the servers, I can reuse hardware to add to the proxmox cluster. Each server is currently configured in a raid 5 with 20 ish Terabytes available. All storage is using HDDs and there...
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    Recommendation for best NVME config for Mini Computer for PM VE

    I am looking to purchase a couple of Minisforum MS-01 systems for a small PM VE cluster, and they have support in the boxes for up to 3 x NVME drives, and I'm looking at options to configure these. I can get 96GB of memory in each box, but would like to have 4TB or more of storage per box as...
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    vm migration in storage replication

    I have 3 nodes, but only two in storage replication in zfs, currently from pve02 to pve01, and pve03 only in lvm as a voting member, my cluster and my vms were created in pve02 on a server weaker than pve01 to make sure that the workload would work well, but as my pve01 server is a newer server...
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    HPE GEN9 DL380 + HP MSA SAN-Storage

    Moin, und zwar will ich ein etwas größeres Setup aufsetzen. 2x HPE GEN9 DL380 und 1x HP MSA P2000 für den Storage der VMs/Container usw. Die beiden Server haben jeweils 7.Platten a 300GB verbaut. (+Smart Array P440ar Raid-Controller) Jetzt frage ich mich, auf den beiden Server wo dann ja nur...
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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...