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 😊

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    Install Proxmox with ZFS

    Next configure the non enterprise repo or buy a subscription

      • tvcvt@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Ceph isn’t installed by default (at least it hasn’t been any time I’ve set up PVE) and there’s no need to use ZFS if you don’t want to. It’s available, but you can go right ahead and install the system on LVM instead.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        There isn’t anything better than ZFS at the moment. Having a tainted kernel doesn’t really mean much.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          1 hour ago

          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.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            45 minutes ago

            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.mlEnglish
              1·
              20 minutes ago

              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 ?

      • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        Whilst on many things I respect Linus he is always opinionated to the max. I seem to remember him doing the same over hardware raid and then software raid as well over the years - so Linus what would you like us to use for some data security eh? I do have to throw in that this article is also from 2023 - a long time and a whole host of the issues he says are simply not true any longer