Hi everyone,
since this is my first post I want to say thank you for creating a great product and for being a great community. You helped me a lot in the past and I did not have any need to register until now, so this had to be said beforehand.
Sadly, I now have some questions regarding the design of a new home setup.
As of now, I have three devices which I want to unite to one:
The setup of the Proxmox server as of now is:
I think RAM could be a problem with ZFS, since I have a bunch of CTs and KVMs running, but I could easily add a small SSD for ZIL/L2ARC.
However, after that decision has been made, how should I utilize the space. Should I simply passthrough the raidz1 or mdadm-RAID 5 to a CT or KVM? Or should I generally passthrough the disks without setting up anything beforehand and maybe setup a FreeNAS-KVM which will then setup the ZFS RAID?
Or is passthrough not an option, since it is an "experimental" feature and I should do something completely different?
And after all that is done, how should I present the shares to other CTs/KVMs? Simply by mounting the shares of the fileserver via a "Proxmox-internal" network or maybe passthrough the whole bunch of disks to those too?
Would be nice to have some input on that topic, maybe there is even some "best practice" around, I was not aware of. Maybe I am kinda stuck, because I am wrapping my head around this for a few days now and I just need some other views.
Thanks for your help in advance!
since this is my first post I want to say thank you for creating a great product and for being a great community. You helped me a lot in the past and I did not have any need to register until now, so this had to be said beforehand.
Sadly, I now have some questions regarding the design of a new home setup.
As of now, I have three devices which I want to unite to one:
- a firewall
- a Synology DiskStation
- a Proxmox Server
The setup of the Proxmox server as of now is:
- Supermicro A1SAi-2550F
- 16 GB DDR3 unbuffered ECC RAM
- 500 GB SSD
I think RAM could be a problem with ZFS, since I have a bunch of CTs and KVMs running, but I could easily add a small SSD for ZIL/L2ARC.
However, after that decision has been made, how should I utilize the space. Should I simply passthrough the raidz1 or mdadm-RAID 5 to a CT or KVM? Or should I generally passthrough the disks without setting up anything beforehand and maybe setup a FreeNAS-KVM which will then setup the ZFS RAID?
Or is passthrough not an option, since it is an "experimental" feature and I should do something completely different?
And after all that is done, how should I present the shares to other CTs/KVMs? Simply by mounting the shares of the fileserver via a "Proxmox-internal" network or maybe passthrough the whole bunch of disks to those too?
Would be nice to have some input on that topic, maybe there is even some "best practice" around, I was not aware of. Maybe I am kinda stuck, because I am wrapping my head around this for a few days now and I just need some other views.
Thanks for your help in advance!