storage setup question, help?

Wehmith

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I have been pouring through posts and docs , but cannot find quite what I am looking for, for the final install. Wasn't sure whether to put in PVE or PBS...

Hardware: HPE Dl385 480gb ssd boot, 8x8TB SAS on P408i-a controller. (have 2 of these servers)

From what I have read it seems best to use HBA and use ZFS for the 8x8TB.

At the moment there will be one important Win Server VM , other VMs would be for testing or "nice but not critical" things. The Windows server is low in requirements so instead of using whole server for it, decided want to use PVE and use extra horsepower so we have something do do test/utility vms on that they won't let us put on the VMware... ;-)

What I am looking to do: Put PVE and PBS on the server, setup the second server at our second location similarly (Microwave link) and sync the backup of the vm to it.

I would like to put the PBS datastore on the same servers as I do not have access to a separate storage at the moment, but the second server would act as my backup redundancy. I know local backup storage is frowned upon. The important vm is less than 100gb.

** My main question is storage setup. On my test desktop PBS wanted a blank disk to format for a datastore and I could not figure how to use part of PVE space (was able to use a usb). I would like to have the vms and the PBS datastore on the 8x8TB if possible. I cannot figure out what I need to do to share, separate or whatever the solution might be?

Also it seems PBS as vm would be way to go?

Thank you for any thoughts, suggestions, or other... I come from Windows environment, but not afraid of Linux like my peers here...
 
PBS just needs a folder with relatime or atime enabled. The filesystem doesn't really matter. Just point it to a folder on a existing storage you already have mounted:
pbs-gui-datastore-create.png
 

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