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Dear STH users, I need to build a new server for a medium sized campsite network that I run. The server will run Proxmox with a PfSense VM that needs to do about a gig of FW throughput and some VPN and other services like captive portal. I'm also seriously considering moving our physical...

Thanks for the interesting read. Most stuff of the second link I've already looked at. The IO thingy is found in Proxmox as the checkmark "IO Thread" which should increase performance but only if multiple machines make use of the same disk. All of my tests are done on a clean machine with only...

Thanks for your reply BackupProphet. In the mean time I have become a little wiser regarding this topic. I have tried out the performance difference of most of the combinations and things to check in my list. Nothing seems to improve performance notably. One thing I did find was removing the ZFS...

Can you reboot into single user mode, or maybe boot some kind of live CD, so you can manage the disks without having some data locked?

I'm doing tests with Proxmox to see if it suits my needs right now (moving from VMware if Proxmox is good enough). I have done some playing around with ZFS zpools and datasets and I wouldn't dare to trust the installer with my data. Maybe your easiest way to upgrade is to get a separate boot...

Hello STH forum, I have a question about running Windows on Proxmox because this is giving me a bad time so far. I'm asking here at STH first because it seems to me there is more technical knowledge on STH than on the Proxmox forums. Some relevant specs of the box I'm running this on: Intel...