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[Airw0lf]

Everybody,

I'm looking for a way to do the following:
- use a seperate/dedicated disk for Proxmox; including the swap partition => for example sda
- use a 8 TBytes RAID-volume for all the running VM's => for example sdb
- use a caching SSD => for example sdc

Anybody suggestions for making this work?
In particular about the SSD-caching part?

I have searches the manual on this.
But I don't recognize anything that points in the direction of this combination:
- The ISO-installer allows installing on a complete disk => have done this before and works as expected.
- Non-ZFS (i.e. ext4) disk in case of a hardware raid controller => I'm ok with this
- Adding the caching SSD-part.

Any pointers would be really great!


Thank you - Will

 

[aaron]

How do you intent to use the caching SSD? PVE itself does not have a mechanism for that by itself. Depending on the storage technology / FS you use, you could set up something like this (e.g. ZFS). But even then, it highly depends on your use case if you gain much by it.