Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
What is TrueNAS adding to this arrangement? Generally when people run two different servers at home, they keep the VM drives on the hypervisor and just use the NAS for storing bigger things like media files. Hosting VM drives over iSCSI works in an enterprise environment, but if you can’t guarantee uptime for your storage solution then you’re just adding failure modes.
It seems to me that your best bet is to go down to one server, which means cutting out either TrueNAS or Proxmox. Both can handle both storage (ZFS included!) and VMs, so ultimately it’s a matter of which you like better.
unsaid0415@szmer.info 1 year ago
I edited my post to clarify that TrueNAS keeps more than just VMs. It has photos, documents etc. as well.
This is simple and makes sense as well. My TrueNAS is only 2 HDDs, which is not ideal for VMs. I could get a larger drive SSD/M.2 drive for the hypervisor, though the Lenovo M920q supports 1xM.2 and 1x2.5" drive.
Well, my whole setup comes from the fact that I wanted to cosplay as an enterprise environment (famous last words for a homelabber). I’ve been powering the TrueNAS up and down a lot due to some electricity-related construction in my apartament, and it brought out this flaw in my setup. I guess an UPS would be in order, as another poster pointed out.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 year ago
I feel that. Experimenting I get, but I’d never have it be my primary vm backing storage. Esp. not on a 1Gb network, no ups, no redundancy.
Someone else suggested local vm storage and a PBS VM on the TrueNas box. I think that’s a solid solution to consider.