2 Mechanical disks and one SSD

MartijnNL

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Hi, Im new to Proxmox. I've read alot about the possibilites with ZFS and SSD caching with Proxmox.

I would like to get some advice/configuration tips/howto about the following:

Server 1:
1x SSD 120GB (/dev/sda) using dedicated for Proxmox installation to run and containing some iso files.
2xHDD 750GB (/dev/sdb & /dev/sdc) using for DATA
1xSSD 480GB (/dev/sdd) using for cache

The HDD's will be in a Mirror and want to add the SSD 480GB as a dedicated caching for ZIL/LOG.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Should it be something like this?
zpool create -f -o ashift=12 VolumePool01 mirror /dev/sdb /dev/sdc cache /dev/sdd

Could not get it cleared out with the documentation and would love to get some expert advice with the current setup.

Thanks!
 
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You say that you created a pool named VolumePool01 but the system shows that you named it vol01Pool and you appear to have configured the storage as VOL01. Please make sure that you use the correct name consistently.
 
BTW: You can driectly create a Zpool includen add this pool as storage to Proxmox with the webinterface.
 
1x SSD 120GB (/dev/sda) using dedicated for Proxmox installation to run and containing some iso files.
2xHDD 750GB (/dev/sdb & /dev/sdc) using for DATA
1xSSD 480GB (/dev/sdd) using for cache

The HDD's will be in a Mirror and want to add the SSD 480GB as a dedicated caching for ZIL/LOG.
Did you read about ZFS and caching? ZIL/LOG is only used for sync writes and mostly async writes are used, so most of the time that SSD isn't caching any writes at all. And you are only using super small HDDs. If you fear that the HDDs might be too slow it would be more usefull to just use two 1TB SDDs as mirror. Or 2x SSDs as mirror for your VMs virtuak disks + 2x HDDs as mirror for data that doesn't need to be fast.
 
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I would be inclined to set up as follows

SSD-120GB - Proxmox Install (~100GB) - remainder to be used for cache/log
HDD-750GBx2 - ZFS Mirror DATA/ISO/Templates/Backups
SSD-480GB - VM Storage for Images and Containers (~460GB) - remainder for cache/log

The only issue with this is that you have no redundancy on your VM Storage so you need to make sure you are backing them up to the ZFS pool or to somewhere else.
 
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