[PVE-User] Proxmox and ZFS on large JBOD ?

[Martin Dziobek]

Thanks for all your input !

I tried TrueNAS Scale, but switched to TrueNAS Core, because Scale is still somewhat Beta,
and license conditions are unclear.

After discovering the possibility to run VMs in TrueNAS, it came to my mind to run
the Proxmox Backup Server in a VM on TrueNas, with an underlying TrueNAS Volume
as a Backup media. Lets see ...

Best regards,
Martin



On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:13:50 +0100
Martin Dziobek <dziobek at hlrs.de> wrote:

> Hi pve-users !
> 
> Does anybody has experiences if proxmox works
> flawlessly to manage a large zfs volume consisting
> of a SAS-connected  JBOD of 60 * 1TB-HDDs ?
> 
> Right now, management is done with a regular
> Debian 11 installation, and rebooting the thing
> always ends up in a timeout mess at network startup,
> because it takes ages to enumerate all those member disks,
> import the zpool and export it via NFS.
> 
> I am considering to install Proxmox on this server for the
> sole purpose of smooth startup and management operation.
> Might that be a stable solution ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
>  
> 
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