Storage
Posts tagged “Storage”.
- The NVMe Specs That Actually Matter for a Homelab
Ignore the Gen4-versus-Gen5 number on the box. For a Proxmox box, two boring specs decide everything — and the retailer's spec table will happily lie to you about one of them.
- Migrating a ZFS pool to new drives in Proxmox
Moving a pool to bigger disks with zfs send/receive: build a fresh pool, replicate, destroy the old one, and rename — so Proxmox never notices.
- Passing physical disks to Proxmox VMs
How to give a VM direct access to a physical disk in Proxmox, and when you'd want to do that versus passing through the whole HBA controller.
- LVM Thin Pools in Proxmox
When to use LVM Thin instead of ZFS in Proxmox, how to set it up, and what over-provisioning actually means in practice.
- Creating a ZFS storage pool in Proxmox
How to add a ZFS pool to Proxmox VE and why it's the right storage backend for most homelab VM and container workloads.
- Identifying ZFS disks with /dev/disk/by-id/
Why /dev/sda is the wrong way to reference disks in ZFS, and how to use persistent identifiers to match pool members to physical drives.
- ZFS, BTRFS, and LVM in the Homelab: Picking a Filesystem Without Regret
A concise field guide to the three storage stacks every Proxmox homelab eventually has to choose between — and the gotchas that bite after the fact.