Installing on SD card

[Loxeno]

Hi!


First, happy new year to everyone!


I would like to know if Proxmox can be tuned in order to be installed into a SD card?
I know that ESXi have these abilities, logs aren't directly written in the SD card, things like that.

Do you have some suggestions about that?

Thank you.

 

[Rhinox]

First of all, ESXi is not common OS, but more like live-image that is loaded into memory and ran from there. Except for logs (core-dumps, etc) it does not use media it was installed on anymore (be it sd-card, usb-stick, hdd/ssd, etc).

Proxmox afaik is based on common Debian-linux. It comes with some tweaks and patches but otherwise it is normal OS, which runs from disk. It was not designed with intention to run from media where r/w-cycles must be kept at minimum. You'd have to do more than redirect logs, and still you can expect sd-card will wear down quite quickly...

Generally I would not recommend to install Proxmox on SD-card. Some users here on forum reported problems even with PVE on SSD, where wear-level indicator goes down very quickly...

 

[LnxBil]

To "emulate" something like that, you can try to boot from SAN (i imply that if you want to use local sd card storage, you will not have local disks)