A Blog post with my findings on Proxmox + ZFS installation

bradmccormack

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Hello all,

This is my first post to the Proxmox forums. I'm really enjoying Proxmox and can't believe something so awesome it is free :) I hope to contribute in the future to development.

I have detailed on my personal blog the process I took to install Proxmox if anybody is interested.

http://www.nerdoncoffee.com/?p=495

I also detailed a bug (in my opinion) in the Proxmox installer that I would like to solve myself.

http://www.nerdoncoffee.com/?p=502

I apologize for the lack of permalinks. It's a crappy Wordpress site (hosted on a cheap VPS) that I am in the process of rewriting by hand to use Go as the backend and HTML5 + AngularJS client side.

I really appreciate all the effort put into Proxmox and look forward to learning a lot about it. I come from ESX and have had some exposure to HyperV but I prefer Open Source these days.

I figured it might be useful to share my experiences and learn anything I have done that is wrong and perhaps help others if there is anything useful. Whilst I understand that most of the content is ZFS is related, that is the consequence of using ZFS in my configuration. The ZFS setup was more intensive than Proxmox itself. I hope to write some interesting articles specifically about Proxmox in the future if time allows.

Cheers.
 
Nice blog entry. Since Proxmox is using LVM-Snapshots for Backup. I guess this won't work within ZFS?
 
Nice blog entry. Since Proxmox is using LVM-Snapshots for Backup. I guess this won't work within ZFS?


I don't think so. I haven't looked yet. I guess I could use ZFS-Snapshots but I don't know much about them yet. I'll update the post when I learn more.

Thanks for looking.
 

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