I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try to summarize my thoughts on the product. Proxmox VE can be described as a low-cost and open-source alternative to VMware vSphere with… Continue reading Reflections on Proxmox VE
Tag: ZFS
ZFS backups in Proxmox – Part 2
A while ago I wrote about trying out pve-zsync for backing up some Proxmox VE entities. I kept using regular Proxmox backups for the other machines, though: It is a robust way to get recoverable machine backups but it’s not very elegant. For example all backups are full: There’s no logic for managing incremental or… Continue reading ZFS backups in Proxmox – Part 2
ZFS backups in Proxmox
I’ve been experimenting with using ZFS snapshots for on- and off-site backups of my Proxmox virtualization environment. For now I’m leaning towards using pve-zsync for backing up my bigger but non-critical machines, and then using syncoid to achieve incremental pull backups off-site. After the initial seed – which I perform over a LAN link –… Continue reading ZFS backups in Proxmox
Moving Proxmox /boot to USB stick
Some short notes I made along the way to benefit the future me. Background On my new server, Proxmox was unable to boot directly to a ZFS file system on a drive connected via the HBA controller. UPDATE (2020-01-27): The SuperMicro X10SRH-CLN4F motherboard boots just fine from a root-on-ZFS disk in UEFI mode from the… Continue reading Moving Proxmox /boot to USB stick
Replacing ZFS system drives in Proxmox
Running Proxmox in a root-on-zfs configuration in a RAID10 pool results in an interesting artifact: We need a boot volume from which to start our system and initialize the elements required to recognize a ZFS pool. In effect, the first mirror pair in our disk set will have (at least) two partitions: a regular filesystem… Continue reading Replacing ZFS system drives in Proxmox