Learning Proxmox

[G2740]

New of course. I've installed initially all lvm-thin. (Ai helped, go figure) I deleted the Ai too.
From reading after the fact, seems zfs is the way.
I have no VMs to worry about. Destroyed them so I could reinstall those also. Learning lol.
Had home assistant, Mint and Ubuntu installed.

All of these drives are lvm thin and storage, Proxmox is on the 2.5 inch 1tb HDD currently.

(2) 1tb m.2 nvme ssd drives. (New Crucial $69 ones not high end drives)
(1) 2.5 inch 1tb 7200 HDD (original machine boot drive, new)
(1) 3.5 inch 1tb old Seagate 7200 HDD, still works, don't know for how long.

Machine is a new, surplus, HP Z1 G5, i7-8700 32gb RAM, 4 cores I think.

Would appreciate best steps and suggestions from; (Already have home assistant running on Nabu Casa Green device, Zigbee and Z-wave dongles are on that. (Proxmox HA will eventually be backup.)

Stick in USB already flashed with Proxmox.
Would prefer not have to do this again. Lol

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dunuin]

While possible to run ZFS, this is not great hardware for it. Recommended are Enterprise SSDs and/or CMR HDDs as well as lots ECC RAM. UPS and proper backup strategy is always good to have, no matter what storage you use to run your services.

 

[G2740]

While possible to run ZFS, this is not great hardware for it. Recommended are Enterprise SSDs and/or CMR HDDs as well as lots ECC RAM. UPS and proper backup strategy is always good to have, no matter what storage you use to run your services.

It's a home hobby learning thing. Are you suggesting not run proxmox at all, or leave it all lvm-thin? There's not going to be any enterprise hardware.

 

[Dunuin]

Are you suggesting not run proxmox at all, or leave it all lvm-thin? There's not going to be any enterprise hardware.

Depends on what you expect and what workloads you intend to run. With LVM-Thin it should be faster and SSDs should last way longer before failing. So yes, with low end consumer hardware it might make more sense to use LVM-Thin combined with a good disaster recovery plan.

 

[G2740]

Depends on what you expect and what workloads you intend to run. With LVM-Thin it should be faster and SSDs should last way longer before failing. So yes, with low end consumer hardware it might make more sense to use LVM-Thin combined with a good disaster recovery plan.

Ok. Thanks for the input. At least I don't have to reinstall everything again. I'll leave it all lvm-thin, expectations are low. I'll leave Proxmox on the HDD as is, use an ssd for VMs and use the other for VM backups which is what I started to do. If I wreck it, it's not the end of the world for me. Learning machine at home hobby.