hints for frist proxmox server

[0rpheus]

Hello,

I will setup my first proxmox server. I have a 256 GB RAM, 4 2TB NVMe SSDs and 2 small SATA SSDs (and raid controllers). What is a good setup mdraid and LVM for the NVMe drives or zfs with raidz1? Is zfs also a good choise for the boot devices? I will use/test classic VMs and Containers.

 

[budy]

Personally, I'd do a ZFS setup where I'd group the two SATA SSDs in a mirrored zpool for root and the 4 2TB NVMe SSDs as a 2nd mirror zpool, but that'd depend on your preference on higher speed or capacity, since you'd could also run a raidz1 using these 4 NVMe SSDS and get some decent performance, while sqeezing some more capacity out of them. 256GB of RAM is great… RAM has always been the most precious resource, right behind fast storage…

Oh… and I never store guests on rpool (root)… just in case, I need to re-install pve for whatever reason…

 

[0rpheus]

Thanks, I try ZFS. I used ZFS many years ago on OpenSolaris and Solaris 10. This was my favorite filesystem, I never used ZFS on Linux.

 

[budy]

ZFS on Linux has come a long way and I finally settled on getting away from Solaris/Illumos back to Linux. Solaris/Illumos is an outstanding OS, but it was mainly ZFS which held me there…

 

[0rpheus]

If I was at university I worked 2 years for Sun. Then 2010 Sun was bought. Since 2011 I have only worked with Linux. ZFS was only used privately from time to time. I hope that ZFS still has a future. I must try Ubuntu 20.04