Hi everyone,
I’m new here and I’m already read few threads about ZFS and NVME disks and know that I need to use Enterprise SSD’s with ZFS otherwise they will wear out very soon…
Currently I use QNAP TS-873 with 32GB RAM, 2x1TB M.2 SATA SSD(RAID1), 2x 8TB HDD(RAID1), 2x 3TB HDD(RAID1) and Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT network card. This QNAP is used for file shares and to run some virtual machines. There are 5 virtual machines and they all together have assigned 16GB RAM and around 200GB HDD.
I also use Supermicro server with Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU, 8GB RAM, Intel X520-SR2 network card as Sophos XG Firewall which license allow me to use 4cores and 6GB RAM.
I would like replace both devices and virtualize all with Proxmox on used server which I’m start to build:
MB: Supermicro H11DSi
CPU: 1x AMD EPYC 7601
RAM: 8x 16GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz
NVME: I have 2 cards 4x nvme card PCI-e 3.0 x16
This parts I already have. Because I have available only 4 SATA ports on MB and don’t want buy another card to connect more SATA drives I would like use this 4 ports to connect old 4 HDD’s. I prefer to use NVME disks for OS and VM storage. I would like use ZFS.
So questions:
1.) I need to buy 2 SSD’s(Mirror and if possible NVME) for OS but don’t know which ones will not wear out quick and do not cost a lot… If I’m read correctly 240-250GB will be enough for OS, logs and some ISO images. I will use one PCI-e to 4x nvme card in PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot for this. I think 2x Samsung PM983 960GB will be overkill for that… Which NVME models I can search and will be ok?
2.) For VM storage I will use 4x Samsung PM983 960GB NVME in RAID10(stripped mirrors). I will use another 4x nvme card in PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot. Do I need to be careful for some setting when I will create ZFS RAID10?
3.) Can Proxmox host send email notifications of some event like HDD issue(S.M.A.R.T., Failure, VM reset, Host reboot…)?
4.) One VM(HomeAssistant) need access to 2 USB Devices. One of them is UPS and another is ZWave module. As I’m read this is not problem right?
5.) I also need some Free Virtual NAS. I don’t need anything special only simple shares(With different user permissions) for windows PC and media player(KODI) on TV and sync some folders to Cloud(Google Drive & Dropbox). If offer me backup of phone(Android) pictures/videos to NAS it will be ok. I’m right now decided which one I will use maybe openmediavault, because I’m read that TrueNAS will not work if I don’t passthrough controller which I can’t do because I will need 3TB Array for VM backups… If I passthrough only 2x 8TB HDD performance will be probably terrible?
I have also a lot questions about networking and VLAN’s. I use 5 vlans and some VM need all 5 to be tagged(Firewall), one VM(UNIFI Controller) need one untagged and 3 tagged(One VLAN is forbidden), other have only one untagged VLAN… But this is question for another section in forum…
Thanks for help and answers.
Best regards, Dejan
I’m new here and I’m already read few threads about ZFS and NVME disks and know that I need to use Enterprise SSD’s with ZFS otherwise they will wear out very soon…
Currently I use QNAP TS-873 with 32GB RAM, 2x1TB M.2 SATA SSD(RAID1), 2x 8TB HDD(RAID1), 2x 3TB HDD(RAID1) and Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT network card. This QNAP is used for file shares and to run some virtual machines. There are 5 virtual machines and they all together have assigned 16GB RAM and around 200GB HDD.
I also use Supermicro server with Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU, 8GB RAM, Intel X520-SR2 network card as Sophos XG Firewall which license allow me to use 4cores and 6GB RAM.
I would like replace both devices and virtualize all with Proxmox on used server which I’m start to build:
MB: Supermicro H11DSi
CPU: 1x AMD EPYC 7601
RAM: 8x 16GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz
NVME: I have 2 cards 4x nvme card PCI-e 3.0 x16
This parts I already have. Because I have available only 4 SATA ports on MB and don’t want buy another card to connect more SATA drives I would like use this 4 ports to connect old 4 HDD’s. I prefer to use NVME disks for OS and VM storage. I would like use ZFS.
So questions:
1.) I need to buy 2 SSD’s(Mirror and if possible NVME) for OS but don’t know which ones will not wear out quick and do not cost a lot… If I’m read correctly 240-250GB will be enough for OS, logs and some ISO images. I will use one PCI-e to 4x nvme card in PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot for this. I think 2x Samsung PM983 960GB will be overkill for that… Which NVME models I can search and will be ok?
2.) For VM storage I will use 4x Samsung PM983 960GB NVME in RAID10(stripped mirrors). I will use another 4x nvme card in PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot. Do I need to be careful for some setting when I will create ZFS RAID10?
3.) Can Proxmox host send email notifications of some event like HDD issue(S.M.A.R.T., Failure, VM reset, Host reboot…)?
4.) One VM(HomeAssistant) need access to 2 USB Devices. One of them is UPS and another is ZWave module. As I’m read this is not problem right?
5.) I also need some Free Virtual NAS. I don’t need anything special only simple shares(With different user permissions) for windows PC and media player(KODI) on TV and sync some folders to Cloud(Google Drive & Dropbox). If offer me backup of phone(Android) pictures/videos to NAS it will be ok. I’m right now decided which one I will use maybe openmediavault, because I’m read that TrueNAS will not work if I don’t passthrough controller which I can’t do because I will need 3TB Array for VM backups… If I passthrough only 2x 8TB HDD performance will be probably terrible?
I have also a lot questions about networking and VLAN’s. I use 5 vlans and some VM need all 5 to be tagged(Firewall), one VM(UNIFI Controller) need one untagged and 3 tagged(One VLAN is forbidden), other have only one untagged VLAN… But this is question for another section in forum…
Thanks for help and answers.
Best regards, Dejan