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

[Kyle Schmitt]

Oh, and since we're throwing around NAS flavors that support ZFS,
Xigma-NAS, which used to be NAS4Free, is free as in speech and beer,
FreeBSD based.  The UI looks a little dated, but it's very solid.  I
only moved away from it because I don't use any features but ZFS and
NFS.

--Kyle

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 1:50 PM Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would separate it out.  I'm running a moderate sized ZFS array on
> one box, with a small 10GB ethernet network dedicated to serving NFS
> from that array to my proxmox nodes.  I had bonded 1G before for the
> same setup, and usually it was a non-issue, but sometimes there was a
> slowdown. With 10G no slowdown on my workloads.
>
> I haven't explored serving ZFS from linux, so mine is on FreeBSD, and
> it's rock solid.
>
> --Kyle
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 7:21 AM 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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