Hi John, On 05/17/2016 12:37 PM, John Sullivan wrote: > Hi Alwin, thanks for the response... > > >> as far as I know, ZFS is not a cluster aware filesystem. You will best use >> NFS/SMB on proxmox for allowing access from >> multiple guests. > > > OK, but I would be able to: a) import and mount the existing zfs pool in Yes, as proxmox uses debian as its OS, there should be no problem. But check if there isn't any zfs version compatibility.
> the proxmox host, and b) make that available via nfs to virtual machines? Yes, you can use proxmox as a nfs server. > And thus c) when I mount the nfs share on the virtual machine, in the same > location, it will appear as if nothing's changed? Yes, if the mount point and export settings stay the same. > > >> I assume you have other needed services on your Ubuntu machine, otherwise >> why virtualize it? > > > Well, partially it's an experiment, partially it's future-proofing, > learning, etc. And the server capacity is so far massively underused, so I > have ideas of what else I can do with the machine once it's virtualised! As you are using the server for multiple roles, you need to check if there are enough hardware resources. As a rule of thumb, 1TB of ZFS storage uses 1GB of RAM and you also have VMs and a NFS server running on the host. Consider this if you also use ZFS on proxmox. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS#Limit_ZFS_memory_usage > > Me... > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user > Cheers, Alwin _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
