Hello,
This is my 1st post please don't bash me
While waiting for a process to finish, I would like to share with you my concerns of a common use case of proxmox and that is the virtualization of the storage backend.
There is too much tutorials on the Internet explaining how this could be done and instead of solving problems they only creates more confusion.
Some people are passing through RAID controllers or block devices just to be able to point and click on some Web GUI like FreeNAS or w/e for their Windows shares, often ending up running ZFS on top of ZFS ...
Some others directly installing samba right on top of the host device completely ignoring the very concept of virtualization.
While none of these are recommended, in some edge cases it could make sense. For example not being able to read or maybe a lack of money to build a dedicated storage server
Why are they doing this, can somebody help them and maybe expand on the greatness of LXC containers ?
This is my 1st post please don't bash me
While waiting for a process to finish, I would like to share with you my concerns of a common use case of proxmox and that is the virtualization of the storage backend.
There is too much tutorials on the Internet explaining how this could be done and instead of solving problems they only creates more confusion.
Some people are passing through RAID controllers or block devices just to be able to point and click on some Web GUI like FreeNAS or w/e for their Windows shares, often ending up running ZFS on top of ZFS ...
Some others directly installing samba right on top of the host device completely ignoring the very concept of virtualization.
While none of these are recommended, in some edge cases it could make sense. For example not being able to read or maybe a lack of money to build a dedicated storage server
Why are they doing this, can somebody help them and maybe expand on the greatness of LXC containers ?
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