I am planning out a migration from a Debian server with virtualbox running headless and virtualboxphp for management. In this setup, what I have usually done for servers is have a small ssd for the boot drive and a larger /data drive that I use to store the valuable stuff. So, in my "old" current vm server, I have the /data/vm folder that stores the configs and images on a seperate ssd from the boot ssd.
I am going a bit more resiliant for the proxmox server. I am wanting to use zfs. I have 2 128 gig drives that I want to use for booting and 2 1tb ssd that would store the vm config files and disks. (my setup is mostly containers and small linux/bsd vms for small functions, dns server, home assistant, jellyfin, owntone, etc... , note: the last 2 have the media files stored on a seperate truenas server)
my first practice install I installed on zfs for the 2x 128gb drives and after completeing the install, I figured out out to setup the 2 1tb drives in a zfs mirror and then create the dataset and directory on it.
I am wondering if this is all necessary though. I noticed that the installer sets up lvm on the boot drive with a small "partition" for boot and the rest for containers/vms.
Should I put all 4 SSD's in a striped mirror and just move forward with that? should I keep with the plan I had with the first practice install, or should I just dump the 2 128gb ssd's and just install the boot on the 2 1tb zfs mirror? Or is there a better plan moving forward?
Thanks.
I am going a bit more resiliant for the proxmox server. I am wanting to use zfs. I have 2 128 gig drives that I want to use for booting and 2 1tb ssd that would store the vm config files and disks. (my setup is mostly containers and small linux/bsd vms for small functions, dns server, home assistant, jellyfin, owntone, etc... , note: the last 2 have the media files stored on a seperate truenas server)
my first practice install I installed on zfs for the 2x 128gb drives and after completeing the install, I figured out out to setup the 2 1tb drives in a zfs mirror and then create the dataset and directory on it.
I am wondering if this is all necessary though. I noticed that the installer sets up lvm on the boot drive with a small "partition" for boot and the rest for containers/vms.
Should I put all 4 SSD's in a striped mirror and just move forward with that? should I keep with the plan I had with the first practice install, or should I just dump the 2 128gb ssd's and just install the boot on the 2 1tb zfs mirror? Or is there a better plan moving forward?
Thanks.
