Best practices for setting up physical disks

[Hazmat480]

I have an HP server that is setup with a raid 50 6.2TB logical volume, 8 - 1.2TB drives. I am wondering what the best way to partition for PVE would be. Should I let the install use it as one large volume or should I create a small volume for the PVE install and then create multiple smaller volumes after install with the free disk space. I can also change the RAID volume if that is better as well. This is for a home server environment Thank you for the feedback.

 

[Glowsome]

I setup proxmox servers from installing a Debian 10 server (which allows me to partition as i see fit) and then moving to proxmox.
This gave me the freedom to lay out partitions as i wanted .. below my partition-layout :

• 500M boot (xfs) – primary partition
• 20Gb root (xfs) – primary partition
• 32 Gb swap – primary partition

As i use LVM to offer local storage (just a tiny portion, as the rest is on a MSA2040 SAS (2 shelves, 48x 600Gb disks) , totalling 21 Tb storage to ProxMox)i have configured this at a later stage with default LVM tools.
The shares disks are confiured as GFS2, and offered to ProxMox as mountpoints on the local system.


the procedure of startingt our with a debbian box and then moving to ProxMox is found on their Wiki here : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster

 

[LnxBil]

I am wondering what the best way to partition for PVE would be.

This is a technicality, but why partition at all if you just can use LVM for everything? Your question is about separation of concerns and that is always a good idea. @Glowsome already shared a standard setup. The default PVE installer also uses a LVM based approach to do exactly that, but you cannot influence it as much as a PVE-on-top-of-Debian-Install.