Was debating moving my NAS to Debian, but now considering moving it to Proxmox instead and clustering it with my primary Proxmox box. Use LXC for some of the workloads and let some of the less hardware-critical VMs (like stream boxes, that require GPUs) migrate between them.

Hmm.

Anyone else out there using #Proxmox as a NAS base?

#selfhosted #homelab

@arch
I have a ZFS pool of a 4-RAIDz (16TB in total) at my #Proxmox node and am mapping some of the zfs directories to a container which serves as a NAS. The pool is also used for backups and the complete pool is snapshotted/send to zfs offline storage on sundays.

#selfhosted #homelab
@arch I have used OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS inside proxmox on spinning rust, performance was good and reliable.

We're also using Proxmox clustered Ceph now at work to hybridize our compute and storage cluster.

@arch yep! I have 112tb (raw, 7x16tb) array as a RAIDZ2. I share datasets directly from the host via zfs' samba and nfs capabilities and expose datasets selectively to LXCs as bind mounts.

I also run a few docker containers and other software directly on the host because I'm a rebel.

@arch Just Proxmox? I had my NAS in a TrueNAS VM on proxmox, but had really weird issues with the VM randomly dying
@arch Yep; I have Proxmox running on a PowerEdge R320, with an LXC container running Docker, and a Samba server as a Docker container.
@arch yep, I'm running an openmediavault VM with an HBA to pass through the disks on my proxmox server

@arch I was doing this for a while with a TrueNAS VM running on top of proxmox. Done properly with an HBA and disks to pass through probably would've been pretty solid, except I ended up deploying it in a really unsupported way with the ZFS pool being a single virtual disk. The local-lvm where the vdisk lived was backed by a RAID-6 array from an actual hardware RAID controller, but it turns out running ZFS like this is a very bad idea lol. Started having really weird problems with various things in that VM after a while.

These days my TrueNAS setup lives on separate hardware though and not on Proxmox anymore.