Hi,
I'm planning on building a new Proxmox server for my home environment (hosting a NAS, K8s, websites, Minecraft, DBs, home networking, etc.). Regarding VM/CT/NAS storage, I'm not too sure how I should go about it.
I was thinking either:
The idea is to (potentially) save some money, while retaining similar or identical performance. In both cases I'd of course aim to have as much RAM as possible for ARC and I have backups basically figured out. I haven't used SLOG up until now, so I'm not sure how much it would help slow spinning rust against a dozen VMs/CTs and a NAS workload. I'm open to suggestions for a different kind of setup and would appreciate if anyone could share their experiences with this kind of thing.
I'm planning on building a new Proxmox server for my home environment (hosting a NAS, K8s, websites, Minecraft, DBs, home networking, etc.). Regarding VM/CT/NAS storage, I'm not too sure how I should go about it.
I was thinking either:
- 2x 1TB NVME SSDs (ZFS mirror) used as the boot volume and for storing VM/CT boot disks
- 2x 4TB HDDs (ZFS mirror) used for storing important files, DBs, etc.
- Some random SSD as the boot drive (the idea being that availability doesn't matter that much)
- 2x 4TB HDDs (ZFS mirror) used for storing everything else with an NVME SSD for SLOG (loss of total capacity doesn't really matter)
The idea is to (potentially) save some money, while retaining similar or identical performance. In both cases I'd of course aim to have as much RAM as possible for ARC and I have backups basically figured out. I haven't used SLOG up until now, so I'm not sure how much it would help slow spinning rust against a dozen VMs/CTs and a NAS workload. I'm open to suggestions for a different kind of setup and would appreciate if anyone could share their experiences with this kind of thing.
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