A correct setup for a HP Z800

[kcallis]

I have been looking at purchasing a HP Z800 workstation. The idea of have 12 cores/24 threads sounds like I can really be productive. I have yet to get the correct storage layout, but it would seem that the Z800 has only 4 drive bays and no real room to add for instance, a 1TB boot HD for proxmox (or even a 250GB SSD).

So assuming that I have only 4 drives, what is the correct way to install proxmox? If I am limited to using one drive for proxmox (a 500GB SSD), that leaves me with 3 drives (I am thinking 6TB drives) for KVM images, lxc, and docker containers. Furthermore, I need to provide space for virtual FreeNAS or virtual OpenMediaVault with many TBs available for storage as well.

If there is anyone that owns a Z800, maybe you can give me some pointers. For instance, there a way to have a boot disk, so that I can setup RAID 5 or ZFS on the 4 drives? If that is not possible, what are my options?

 

[bit2gb]

Well i search on net based board for z800 and there i can see 6 sata port so you can put a hard drive into a cady using cd rom slot so:
1 ssd for proxmox
5drives for storage and from there you have a lot of options...

 

[kcallis]

Well i search on net based board for z800 and there i can see 6 sata port so you can put a hard drive into a cady using cd rom slot so:
1 ssd for proxmox
5drives for storage and from there you have a lot of options...

Thanks for the info. Assuming I put PM6 on a SSD, what is the best configuration... Do I go with the standard LVM default or it is time to make the move to shift towards ZFS and RAID-Z? I am sure that there is greater complexity using ZFS.

 

[bit2gb]

I recommend zfs than thin lvm from my point of view. Algorithms from zfs is more complex and faster.