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Getting Started with Proxmox (piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by modeh@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

I finally managed to get my hands on a Beelink EQ 14 to upgrade from the RPi running DietPi that I have been using for many years to host my services.

I have always was interested in using Proxmox and today is the day. Only problem is I am not sure where to start. For example, do you guys spin up a VM for every service you intend to run? Do you set it up as ext4, btrfs, or zfs? Do you attach external HDD/SSD to expand your storage (beyond the 2 PCIe slots in the Beelink in this example).

I’ve only started reading up on Proxmox just today so I am by no means knowledgeable on the topic

I hope to hear how you guys setup yours and how you use it in terms of hosting all your services (nextcloud, vaultwarden, cgit, pihole, unbound, etc…) and your ”Dos and Don’ts“

Thank you 😊

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except having slightly better deduplication, I don't the see what justifies the extra complexity and living under the bad aura of Oracle. LVM does almost everything ZFS does, it's just less abstracted, which I like actually because I want to know on what hard drive my stuff is, not some mushy file cloud that either all works or is all gone.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LVM is not even close

ZFS is way more fault tolerant and scalable due to the underlying design. In continually does data integrity checks and will catch but flips.

ZFS also has Arc which allows your ram to act as a full on cache which improves performance.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can do data scrubbing with PAR2 or filesystem level with btrfs on top of LVM (or even in a traditionnal partition)

I think you can ram cache with bcachefs or a ramdrive, and unless you're in a VM then your file system driver would already do file caching in ram ?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don' use bcachefs as it isn't stable and was removed from the kernel. As for btrfs it is still in technology preview on Proxmox isn't considered production ready.

I would just use ZFS. Don't reinvent the wheel.