I'm thinking about migrating to Proxmox but not sure how my new architecture is going to look like yet so I would like some wisdom.
My homelab is running 2 esxi nodes with some local storage plus another TrueNas Scale server for iSCSI for both nodes as well as SMB shares for various PCs in the house.
Question 1: The hypervisor storage
I don't think I can do Proxmox Ceph as the 2 esxi nodes only support SFF drives and my TrueNas server is the only one with LFF drive support.
According to the storage guide from proxmox, my option seems to be ZFS over iSCSI for each proxmox node to access the shared storage.
However, since the zvol is going to be raidz2/mirror (haven't decided) anyway, should I be worried about zfs-on-zfs overhead?
Are there any other pitfall I should keep a lookout for/things you would like to warn me?
Question 2: The tape backup
Another question is, I scored myself a HP MSL4048 tape library with an LTO-4 and an LTO-5 drives (both FC) and I want to incorporate this into my backup solution.
A lot of people mentioned Proxmox Backup Server but I don't really understand how is it going to work in this context since most of the data is on the TrueNas box and I want it to backup both the iSCSI zvol as well as the SMB dataset.
My homelab is running 2 esxi nodes with some local storage plus another TrueNas Scale server for iSCSI for both nodes as well as SMB shares for various PCs in the house.
Question 1: The hypervisor storage
I don't think I can do Proxmox Ceph as the 2 esxi nodes only support SFF drives and my TrueNas server is the only one with LFF drive support.
According to the storage guide from proxmox, my option seems to be ZFS over iSCSI for each proxmox node to access the shared storage.
However, since the zvol is going to be raidz2/mirror (haven't decided) anyway, should I be worried about zfs-on-zfs overhead?
Are there any other pitfall I should keep a lookout for/things you would like to warn me?
Question 2: The tape backup
Another question is, I scored myself a HP MSL4048 tape library with an LTO-4 and an LTO-5 drives (both FC) and I want to incorporate this into my backup solution.
A lot of people mentioned Proxmox Backup Server but I don't really understand how is it going to work in this context since most of the data is on the TrueNas box and I want it to backup both the iSCSI zvol as well as the SMB dataset.