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 😊
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.
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 ?
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.