Best practice for storage configuration

[alve89]

Hi all,

since I'm quite new to Proxmox and virtualization in general, I'd appreciate any recommendations for a good configuration of my system regarding the storage.

I have:

• 2x 2 TB HDD as ZFS
• 1x 1 TB HDD
• 1x 3 TB HDD
• 1x 256 GB SSD NVME as LVM
• 1x 256 GB SSD SATA as ZFS

I want to use:

• A NAS with RAID1-support to be used as NVR and data storage, a nice to have is an UI for additional file handling / browsing (e. g. manual backup to external HDD)
  • I thought of using TrueNAS Scale as
    • main file storage system
    • app running system (file browser, WebDAV)
• Different LXC containers like Home Assistant, Frigate, PhotoPrism, ...

By now I configured everything as following (using default settings or just followed my gut instinct):

• Datacenter
  • local (256 GB NVME): VZDump backup file, ISO image, Container template
  • local-lvm (256 GB NVME): Disk image, Container
• VM TrueNAS
  • ZFS dataset, used for NFS shares
    • 2x 2 TB HDD via /dev/disk/by-id/... as RAID1
    • 32 GB of SSD SATA as Cache VDEV
    • 32 GB of SSD SATA as Log VDEV
• Different LXCs with parts of local-LVM as root disks and NFS shares from TrueNAS

What would you suggest for a good basic configuration, especially:

1. Which disk for root disks of the LXCs?
2. Is TrueNAS a good solution or rather Cockpit (just read about this the first time)?
   1. Which volumes for the ZFS pool?
3. Best way for create and store backups / snapshots (perhaps on the 1 TB HDD)?

The more I think about all this, the more I get confused...

Thanks in advance and best regards!

 

[floh8]

1. Nvme SSD
2. omv
3. the 1+3tb disks AS seperate datastores in pbs
4. 2x2 TB disks AS zfs mirror for OMV data disk

 

[alve89]

Sorry for my late reply, I was not at home for a few weeks.

2. omv

Why OMV and not TrueNAS with ZFS? So no PVE at all?

 

[floh8]

When using truenas u have to passtrough a separat controller.

 

[alve89]

And what's the matter with that?

 

[floh8]

Its a More complex setup