Newbie needs recommendation for new install....

[TTJames76]

I am in the process of setting up a small Proxmox host for use in my home lab. I am new to Proxmox, but not new to virtualization. I am looking for recommendations on how to configure my storage specifically, but am open to any and all other recommendations related to a fresh install of Proxmox. I would like to leverage thin-provisioning, snapshots and clones if possible for my guest VM's and containers.

I have the following HW to work with :

1x - 512GB NVMe
1x - 2TB SATA SSD
1x - 2TB SATA HDD

Was thinking about installing Proxmox on the NVMe drive ( local-??? ), configuring the HDD as Directory storage for use with ISO's and backups and then configures the SSD as either Directory, LVM-Thin or maybe ZFS for use with VM images and containers. I understand ZFS is no good for just one drive. LVM-Thin has the capabilities I am looking for. But maybe I could get away with just Directory storage as this is just a small simple install and could rely on the snapshots provided through .qcow2 images.

 

[leesteken]

Proxmox VE itself runs fine from a HDD as it does a lot of writes (bad for consumer SSD/NVMe) but requires no high performance.

 

[UdoB]

I understand ZFS is no good for just one drive.

Well..., I disagree.

One major feature is to self-heal damaged blocks (detected during "scrubbing"). That feature requires some redundancy to work - so it does NOT work with a single device. (There is an option to store each and every block twice on the same physical drive - but I do not count that as a substitute!)

But all the other famous capabilities do work: transparent compression, technically cheap snapshots, guaranteed integrity, replication and so on...

See also: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/f...y-a-few-disks-should-i-use-zfs-at-all.160037/

Have fun!