Comment on Storage Setup for Proxmox in Lenovo M90q (Gen 1)
yote_zip@pawb.social 1 year ago
I would prefer 1. Restoring a failed ZFS mirror is easy, and you can continue to operate while a new drive arrives.
2 will get you more space in theory but you’ll have downtime with any problem like you said, and you’ll also have slower speeds without the mirror.
3 is unnecessary unless you have a good reason.
I don’t see any disadvantages with Proxmox and VMs on the same disk, as Proxmox shouldn’t have muxb activity going on.
My suggestion is to set up Proxmox under a VM and give it some virtual disks to replicate these setups and then try yanking a disk and trying to recover. Write down the steps it takes to get back to a normal system and see if that affects your decision.
Pete90@feddit.de 1 year ago
Excellent suggestion, I didn’t even think about testing the setup using a VM as you suggested.
I also lean to option 1, as it is just the simplest. There is conflicting information out there regarding proxmox and the VMs being on the same disk: some people say it’s fine, others hate it (although I couldn’t quite figure out why, hence the question).
The biggest downside is storage space, but I don’t think I’ll need all too much since I’m currently running everything on about about 500GB and of those only using 70GB.