ZFS needs more love ...

[lindworm]

While I appreciate your effort to get virtualization running, and it works faster than VMware, I have some trouble getting ZFS to work as intended.

ZFS should be unaware of any hardware failure, as long as you exchange the failed hardware, BUT not with Proxmox ...

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS:_Tips_and_Tricks
tells me how to use the CLI to exchange failed hardware, but this should be done "automagically", but it seems, it doesn't.

It is a problem. maybe not for you, but for me:

I just exchanged a Perc H710 with a Perc H310 to let my Dell R720xd run on FreeNAS, OMG, what a failure, it was just a pain in the a$$. So I decided to use the ZFS support of Proxmox the first time, I was even more disappointed.

The main problem in Real Life is NOT to install anything on anything, BUT to troubleshot the problems that occur on a daily base, like a failed harddrive ...

And by the way: DO NOT REQUIRE a valid Email while installation: the "@" doesn't go well with a java remote connection (with german keyboard - alt-gr q - so I had to replace the chars in front of the @ and then the chars after the @, while btw "root" IS a valid email address as well as root@localhost, in contrast root@localhost.localdomain is most likely NOT, but will be accepted by Proxmox.)

 

[LnxBil]

The main problem in Real Life is NOT to install anything on anything, BUT to troubleshot the problems that occur on a daily base, like a failed harddrive ...

Hmm, I haven't used the GUI and I don't thing there is automagic involved, but man zpool is your friend and the commands are all the same for all ZFS implementations based on OpenZFS and also FreeBSD and FreeNAS.

There is another page that describes ZFS including what to do with a failed drive, maybe that helps you:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux

And by the way: DO NOT REQUIRE a valid Email while installation: the "@" doesn't go well with a java remote connection (with german keyboard - alt-gr q - so I had to replace the chars in front of the @ and then the chars after the @, while btw "root" IS a valid email address as well as root@localhost, in contrast root@localhost.localdomain is most likely NOT, but will be accepted by Proxmox.)

I always just delete the "in" from "invalid" and get a valid address. I don't mind getting mails.

 

[guletz]

ZFS should be unaware of any hardware failure, as long as you exchange the failed hardware, BUT not with Proxmox ...

wrong

 

[fireon]

Failed drives are very easy to handle. Maybe german is for you ok: https://deepdoc.at/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=server_und_serverdienste:linux_zfs

 

[lindworm]

Thank you very much for this link, I now know how to handle the situation. The reason for my complaint is: With a usual Raidcontroller I can direct someone else but me to replace the harddrive with the "yellow LED" just without any hassle. After replacing it everything else will be done by the Raidcontroller.

Now I have to remote login and follow the protocol for replacing the harddrive. The difference for my customer are about 100 Euros per defect harddrive ... ;-)

 

[LnxBil]

Thank you very much for this link, I now know how to handle the situation. The reason for my complaint is: With a usual Raidcontroller I can direct someone else but me to replace the harddrive with the "yellow LED" just without any hassle. After replacing it everything else will be done by the Raidcontroller.

Now I have to remote login and follow the protocol for replacing the harddrive. The difference for my customer are about 100 Euros per defect harddrive ... ;-)

Thank you for reading the manual, you would have found the autoreplace feature which could be what you want.

 

[lindworm]

Thank you for reading the manual, you would have found the autoreplace feature which could be what you want.

May the honorable gentleman consider, that we users of software don't read all manuals like the bible, but expect some key features being implemented as default and not buried on page 276 of an outdated manual.

But in fact pointing out that there exist an option to make is possible is helpful, therefor I thank you very much!