Unattended Proxmox installation

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Lucian

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Hello,

I need to find a way to install Proxmox automatically and I found the wiki page where it's said to install Debian Stretch first, then install promox on top of that.
I am happy to proceed that way, but I was wondering.. how OK is this procedure? Are developers happy with it for a production environment etc?

Regards,
Lucian
 
Lucian said:
I am happy to proceed that way, but I was wondering.. how OK is this procedure?
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It should be perfectly fine as long as you follow the procedure on the wiki correctly.
 
On a second thought, installing Proxmox on top of Debian makes ZFS complicated.
If I installed Debian from preseed file, on an ext4 partition, can I then add a second partition, format it ZFS and use it for VMs?
 
Lucian said:
If I installed Debian from preseed file, on an ext4 partition, can I then add a second partition, format it ZFS and use it for VMs?
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In theory, yes.

But after you've installed Proxmox, you should be able to create a new ZFS storage (and many other types) easily through the GUI.

Just go to
Datacenter > Storage > Add
 
oguz said:
In theory, yes.

But after you've installed Proxmox, you should be able to create a new ZFS storage (and many other types) easily through the GUI.

Just go to
Datacenter > Storage > Add
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I want to fully automate my deployments, don't want to rely on GUI - that's for one.
Two, the featured you mentioned only works if you have entire drives available, whereas I only (for example) have a pair of SSDs which I'd like to use in some sort of RAID1.
 
I just used really small SSDs just for default ext4 Debian plus Proxmox and when everything was set, I created ZFS on all other disks as extra Pools. This way I have ZFS data disk which I can just plug into a new PVE setup just in case.
 
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