The ESXI thread got me thinking... ESXI cares a lot less about what it's installed onto... so Proxmox obviously you have the OS itself and management software/layer, but then you have containers and VMs all possibly running off where you did the install.
So what did you install it onto, and why? How is it working? Would you change anything?
Have you tested/compared to other setups?
IE: Mirrored SSD for OS/Proxmox on ZFS and let Proxmox handle the rest vs putting VMs and Containers only on other mirrored SSD and is that faster, slower, the same?
I've been playing around with Proxmox on 2x 64GB SATADOMs and VMs on P3600 NVME.
There's a lot LESS information on proxmox than ESXI and I've been spending a good bit of time today researching for answers and sadly a lot of the posts are from 2012-2014 on completely old versions of PVE. PVE posts/content is lacking while ESXI you get a million answers to decide which is best
LOL!!
Anyway, I was hoping we could turn this thread into a proxmox storage question/answer what works, what doesn't, etc... starting with some points I made above.
I didn't bring in multiple nodes, and ceph because, well most here aren't running 3+ nodes in addition to shared storage and even for my small business that's a lot of hardware to keep running all the time for VMs that can go down and be 'fine', so I'm trying to learn more about local storage and data security and how it relates to PVE.
So what did you install it onto, and why? How is it working? Would you change anything?
Have you tested/compared to other setups?
IE: Mirrored SSD for OS/Proxmox on ZFS and let Proxmox handle the rest vs putting VMs and Containers only on other mirrored SSD and is that faster, slower, the same?
I've been playing around with Proxmox on 2x 64GB SATADOMs and VMs on P3600 NVME.
- It got me thinking...
- if both SataDOM die can I simply re-install PVE on new drives and import my VMs and be up and running again?
- Should we be backing up the actual Proxmox Install itself in addition to the VMs?
- Are my VMs on the p3600 handicapped at all because PVE is on a slow SATA disc?
- Are my containers on the P3600 handicapped at all because PVE is on a slow SATA disc?
There's a lot LESS information on proxmox than ESXI and I've been spending a good bit of time today researching for answers and sadly a lot of the posts are from 2012-2014 on completely old versions of PVE. PVE posts/content is lacking while ESXI you get a million answers to decide which is best
LOL!!Anyway, I was hoping we could turn this thread into a proxmox storage question/answer what works, what doesn't, etc... starting with some points I made above.
I didn't bring in multiple nodes, and ceph because, well most here aren't running 3+ nodes in addition to shared storage and even for my small business that's a lot of hardware to keep running all the time for VMs that can go down and be 'fine', so I'm trying to learn more about local storage and data security and how it relates to PVE.
