Proxmox 8.1 with Synology UC3200 iSCSI

Jan 24, 2024
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Hello and good evening to this forum.

This is my first post here, if my concern has already been asked and/or answered, please bear with the newcomer.

Like many others here, we also belong to the illustrious circle of Vsphere users who are probably leaving. For this reason, we currently have a PoC with three Proxmox nodes installed and are testing various scenarios. Of course, the PoC also includes corresponding subscriptions (since PoC is initially still a community)
In our current productive environment we operate a fully expanded UC3200 iSCSI storage (Node + 2 expansions), which we would of course like to continue to use via iSCSI / ZFS over iSCSI.
First, however, we have a problem with exchanging the ssh keys for authentication.
This manifests itself in such a way that although there is the possibility of accessing the UC3200 via ssh, there is no root user for login on the UC3200, only an admin user exists and root User cannot be created.
This initially eliminates the possibility of authorizing ssh access via ssh key exchange.
We have already tried options using ssh_config / alias etc., but maybe we can't see the "forest for the trees"?
For this reason, I would like to ask whether there are alternative ways to implement the ssh login using a login other than root@<IP Addr>?

I would be grateful for any help!

Thanks and best regards

Thomas
 
Thanks for your answer
no, I'm not at all sure that Synolgy uses ZFS.
At the moment we are pretty much at the beginning and of course we want to be able to use as many of the existing components as possible.
If ZFS is not possible, that would be a point on the todo that would then be checked off.
Further options via iSCSI would of course be connected without snapshot functionality.
It would also be important to me to find a possible alternative to the inability to use ssh access for root@ and then look for other options.
 

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