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=Native ZFS for Linux on Proxmox 2.X=
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*2012-02-25.  check  http://zfsonlinux.org/ See the Documentation and Community Resources for more information and help.
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*2013-03-17.  0.6.0 RC14 is stable, ZFS On Linux official stable version 0.6.1 is around the corner
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I had tried 3 other operating systems including Debian/kFreebsd and for each was able to recover all the zfs  file systems from previous installs. Even with disk name changes [bsd uses ad11, linux sdb ] no data was lost. Today I set up zfsonlinux using the following info on 2 prox 2.0 systems
Storage pool type: zfspool
 
This backend allows you to access local ZFS pools (or ZFS file systems
== using dkms  ==
inside such pools).
 
Configuration
Note (2013-03-17): this procedure worked well for PVE 2.3
The backend supports the common storage properties content, nodes,
 
disable, and the following ZFS specific properties:
<pre>
pool
# apt key
Select the ZFS pool/filesystem. All allocations are done within that
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys  F6B0FC61
pool.
 
blocksize
#sources:
Set ZFS blocksize parameter.
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zfs-native/stable/ubuntu lucid  main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zfs.list
sparse
 
Use ZFS thin-provisioning. A sparse volume is a volume whose
aptitude update
reservation is not equal to the volume size.
 
mountpoint
aptitude install dkms pve-headers-$(uname -r)
The mount point of the ZFS pool/filesystem. Changing this does not
</pre>
affect the mountpoint property of the dataset seen by zfs.
 
Defaults to /&lt;pool&gt;.
*this is needed for dkms to work:
Configuration Example (/etc/pve/storage.cfg)
<pre>
zfspool: vmdata
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.32-10-pve/build /lib/modules/2.6.32-10-pve/source
        pool tank/vmdata
</pre>
        content rootdir,images
'''Maybe someone who knows how to write a patch could submit one and suggest this be done when kernel is upgraded?''' Otherwise I think when the Proxmox kernel upgrades,  dkms build may fail if this is not done [ using new  pve-headers ).
        sparse
 
File naming conventions
 
The backend uses the following naming scheme for VM images:
then install zfs
vm-&lt;VMID&gt;-&lt;NAME&gt;      // normal VM images
<pre>
base-&lt;VMID&gt;-&lt;NAME&gt;    // template VM image (read-only)
aptitude install ubuntu-zfs
subvol-&lt;VMID&gt;-&lt;NAME&gt;  // subvolumes (ZFS filesystem for containers)
</pre>
&lt;VMID&gt;
 
This specifies the owner VM.
finally make sure that zfs is started at system boot, edit /etc/default/zfs
&lt;NAME&gt;
<pre>
This can be an arbitrary name (ascii) without white space. The
# ZoL userland configuration.
backend uses disk[N] as default, where [N] is replaced by an
 
integer to make the name unique.
# Run `zfs mount -a` during system start?
Storage Features
# This should be 'no' if zfs-mountall or a systemd generator is available.
ZFS is probably the most advanced storage type regarding snapshot and
ZFS_MOUNT='yes'
cloning. The backend uses ZFS datasets for both VM images (format
</pre>
raw) and container data (format subvol). ZFS properties are
 
inherited from the parent dataset, so you can simply set defaults
 
on the parent dataset.
 
Table 1. Storage features for backend zfs
=== kernel upgrade  ===
Content types
currently this needs to be done when a kernel upgrade occurs.
Image formats
*'''before reboot''':
Shared
:2.6.32.11 upgrade from 2.6.32.10  did before reboot [ for  you would need to change 2.6.32-11-pve if different version.
Snapshots
aptitude install pve-headers-2.6.32-11-pve
Clones
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.32-11-pve/build /lib/modules/2.6.32-11-pve/source
images rootdir
 
raw subvol
*this will force modules to be  built ( there is probably a better way to do this , so correct this if you know how to make dkms do the build ).
no
aptitude reinstall spl-dkms  zfs-dkms
yes
 
yes
== using git ==
Examples
*install these
It is recommended to create an extra ZFS file system to store your VM images:
aptitude install build-essential gawk alien fakeroot zlib1g-dev uuid uuid-dev libssl-dev parted  pve-headers-$(uname -r)
# zfs create tank/vmdata
*get make and install spl
To enable compression on that newly allocated file system:
<pre>
# zfs set compression=on tank/vmdata
cd /usr/src
You can get a list of available ZFS filesystems with:
git clone https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl.git
# pvesm zfsscan
cd spl
See Also
./configure
Storage
make deb
ZFS on Linux
dpkg -i *.deb
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modprobe spl
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</pre>
*get make and install zfs
<pre>
cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs.git
cd zfs
./configure
make deb
dpkg -i *.deb
</pre>
 
* make sure module can load
modprobe zfs
 
* install debs does not do this:
update-rc.d zfs defaults
 
*'''note , the deb files made above can be used to install zfs on another system'''.
 
*if there is a pre existing zfs pool then simply use the next line to recover it. this can happen if you re-install proxmox and have zfs disks from before.
zpoo  </cman>
 
 
*If there is a need or want I could set up a repository with pre build debs. Just send an email .
 
=Creating Pools and Filesystems=
'''use raidz2 or mirror in main data systems.'''
 
==Create a raidz pool named “tank”==
zpool create  -f -o ashift=12 tank  raidz  /dev/sda  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdc  /dev/sdd  /dev/sde  /dev/sdf  /dev/sdg  /dev/sdh
 
*note this happened to 2 or 3 disks the 1-st time. these were disks from a 3-ware raid.
<pre>
zpool create  -f -o ashift=12 tank  raidz2  /dev/sda  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdc  /dev/sdd  /dev/sde  /dev/sdf  /dev/sdg  /dev/sdh
invalid vdev specification
the following errors must be manually repaired:
cannot stat /dev/sdg2: No such file or directory
</pre>
had to use fdisk to add partitions 1 , 2 etc to those disks .   I forget if I left the partitions there or not. but had to add to get this fixed.
<blockquote>
'''''NOTE''': This is quite risky if you intend to deploy ZFS on a server. Any changes to the operating system's devices layout will break your pool. Don't create a pool using device names like ''<code>/dev/sda</code>''. For persistence, use devices under ''<code>/dev/disk/by-id</code>''.'' - [[User:Bryan Baldwin|Bryan Baldwin]]
</blockquote>
 
==Create directories and mount points==
<pre>
zfs create tank/data
zfs set mountpoint=/data tank/data
</pre>
 
*mount all
zfs mount -a
 
==destroy==
to start over
zpool destroy zfs-pool
 
==Setting Properties==
*Automatically NFS-export all home directories  [ I do not know how to use zfs nfs yet , or if it works yet in linux...].
zfs set sharenfs=rw tank/home
*check sharenfs 
<pre>
zfs get sharenfs tank/home
NAME    PROPERTY  VALUE    SOURCE
tank/home  sharenfs  rw        local
</pre>
*Turn on compression for everything in the pool
zfs set compression=on tank
 
== kvm tuning==
see thread on prox forum , per user Nemesiz  :
*pool:
zfs set primarycache=all tank
*kvm config:
* change cache to Write Back
:You can do it using web GUI or manually. Example:
ide0: data_zfs:100/vm-100-disk-1.raw,cache=writeback
if not set this happened:
<pre>
qm start 4016
kvm: -drive file=/data/pve-storage/images/4016/vm-4016-disk-1.raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio1,aio=native,cache=none: could not open disk image /data/pve-storage/images/4016/vm-4016-disk-1.raw: Invalid argument
</pre>
== Install on a high performance system==
 
As of 2013 high performance servers have 16-64 cores, 256GB-1TB RAM and potentially many 2.5" disks and/or a PCIe based SSD with half a million IOPS. High performance systems benefit from a number of custom settings, for example enabling compression typically improves performance.
 
* If you have a good number of disks keep organized by using aliases. Edit /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf to prepare aliases for disk devices found in /dev/disk/by-id/ :
# run 'udevadm trigger' after updating this file
alias a0        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf39854055206
alias b0        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf3ce573fdeb6
alias a1        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf40f5b277cbc
alias b1        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf43a5db1b99b
alias a2        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf4575f652ad0
alias b2        scsi-36848f690e856b10018cdf47761587cec
 
Use flash for caching/logs. If you have only one SSD, use cfdisk to create a small partion for the ZIL (ZFS intent log) and a larger one for the L2ARC (ZFS read cache on disk). Make sure that the ZIL is on the first partition.  In our case we have a Express Flash PCIe SSD with 175GB capacity and setup a ZIL with 25GB and a L2ARC cache partition of 150GB
 
* edit /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf​ to apply several tuning options for high performance servers:
 
# ZFS tuning for a proxmox machine that reserves 64GB for ZFS
#
# Don't let ZFS use less than 4GB and more than 64GB
options zfs zfs_arc_min=4294967296
options zfs zfs_arc_max=68719476736
#
# disabling prefetch is no longer required
options zfs l2arc_noprefetch=0
 
* create a zpool of striped mirrors (equivalent to RAID10) with log device and cache and always enable compression:
 
zpool create -o compression=on -f tank mirror a0 b0 mirror a1 b1 mirror a2 b2 log /dev/rssda1 cache /dev/rssda2​
 
* ​​​​​​​​check the status of the newly created pool:
 
<pre>
root@proxmox:/# zpool status
  pool: tank
state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:
 
        NAME        STATE    READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank        ONLINE      0    0    0
          mirror-0  ONLINE      0    0    0
            a0      ONLINE      0    0    0
            b0      ONLINE      0    0    0
          mirror-1  ONLINE      0    0    0
            a1      ONLINE      0    0    0
            b1      ONLINE      0    0    0
          mirror-2  ONLINE      0    0    0
            a2      ONLINE      0    0    0
            b2      ONLINE      0    0    0
        logs
          rssda1    ONLINE      0    0    0
        cache
          rssda2    ONLINE      0    0    0
 
errors: No known data errors
</pre>
 
Using PVE 2.3 on a 2013 high performance system with ZFS you can install Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition with GUI in just under 4 minutes.
 
=zfs links and docs=
*http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html
 
*http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfslast.pdf
 
and this has some very important information to know before implementing zfs on a production  system.
*http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
 
check these well written manual pages:
man zfs
man zpool
 
= How to install ZFS-fuse under Proxmox =
 
(Tested with Kernel 2.6.32)
 
  apt-get install build-essential libaio-dev libattr1-dev libacl1-dev libz-dev libz-dev libfuse-dev libfuse2 scons libssl-dev
  wget -nd http://zfs-fuse.net/releases/0.6.0/zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2
  tar jxvf zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2
  cd zfs-fuse-0.6.0
  cd src
  scons
  scond install
 
'''Note:''' zfs-fuse-0.6.0 is now (Dec 2012) deprecated. Use [http://zfs-fuse.net/releases/0.7.0/zfs-fuse-0.7.0.tar.bz2 zfs-fuse-0.7.0.tar.bz2] instead.
 
Fire up ZFS-fuse daemon
  /usr/local/sbin/zfs-fuse
 
Create Zpool
  zpool create -m /var/lib/vz/images2 /dev/sdb
 
Create ZFS
  zfs create images2/109
 
ZFS clone a vm 109 to vm 110
  zfs snapshot images2/109@master
  zfs clone images2/109@master images2/110
 
= Debian GNU/kFreeBSD =
'''As of 2012-02 the squeeze version does not have NFS, so AFAIK can not be used for Proxmox storage.''' When  Debsd has nfs support then I'd use this for storage of iso's and backups to start.  In the mean time this works as a samba server..
 
zfs works much better using  Debian/GNU kFreeBSD  then fuse.
 
after installing the system to kvm or hardware:
 
*add some disks .  in KVM i was only able to get ide to work.
 
*the scsi disks look like:
<pre>
ls /dev/ad*
/dev/ad10  /dev/ad10s1  /dev/ad10s2  /dev/ad11  /dev/ad12  /dev/ad13
</pre>
 
*  per http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide  - if I read it right - use entire disk not slices for zfs (I assume slices = partitions).
 
*if the disks have partition tables, then clear them. just not the operating system disk!   I used fdisk to clear the tables. This may not be necessary , if it is not then please delete this part.
<pre>
fdisk /dev/ad11
o
w
</pre>
then same for ad12 and ad13
 
*install this
aptitude install zfsutils
 
*make a pool
zpool create -f  zfs-pool /dev/ad11 /dev/ad12  /dev/ad13
 
df | grep zfs-pool
zfs-pool      zfs    1.4T  18K  1.4T  1% /zfs-pool
 
*http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

Latest revision as of 08:08, 6 December 2019

Storage pool type: zfspool

This backend allows you to access local ZFS pools (or ZFS file systems inside such pools).

Configuration

The backend supports the common storage properties content, nodes, disable, and the following ZFS specific properties:

pool

Select the ZFS pool/filesystem. All allocations are done within that pool.

blocksize

Set ZFS blocksize parameter.

sparse

Use ZFS thin-provisioning. A sparse volume is a volume whose reservation is not equal to the volume size.

mountpoint

The mount point of the ZFS pool/filesystem. Changing this does not affect the mountpoint property of the dataset seen by zfs. Defaults to /<pool>.

Configuration Example (/etc/pve/storage.cfg)
zfspool: vmdata
        pool tank/vmdata
        content rootdir,images
        sparse

File naming conventions

The backend uses the following naming scheme for VM images:

vm-<VMID>-<NAME>      // normal VM images
base-<VMID>-<NAME>    // template VM image (read-only)
subvol-<VMID>-<NAME>  // subvolumes (ZFS filesystem for containers)
<VMID>

This specifies the owner VM.

<NAME>

This can be an arbitrary name (ascii) without white space. The backend uses disk[N] as default, where [N] is replaced by an integer to make the name unique.

Storage Features

ZFS is probably the most advanced storage type regarding snapshot and cloning. The backend uses ZFS datasets for both VM images (format raw) and container data (format subvol). ZFS properties are inherited from the parent dataset, so you can simply set defaults on the parent dataset.

Table 1. Storage features for backend zfs
Content types Image formats Shared Snapshots Clones

images rootdir

raw subvol

no

yes

yes

Examples

It is recommended to create an extra ZFS file system to store your VM images:

# zfs create tank/vmdata

To enable compression on that newly allocated file system:

# zfs set compression=on tank/vmdata

You can get a list of available ZFS filesystems with:

# pvesm zfsscan

See Also


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