@Andy_Wismer as said in a PM have a lot of questions.
In a open-source mind setting want to continue the conversation in public, you never know if something useful for others will come out of it.
Doing most work on Nethserver for small (credit-card sized) arm devices bought something Huge (in my perspective): A used HP ml350p gen8 dual intel xeon e5-2620 v2 32gb ram 2x450gb 4x600gb 10k sas.
First intended use is to be development platform, it could very well becoming my daily SOHO server⊠And being a longtime user of VM-Ware considering the switch to Proxmox; foremost because Iâm sick and tired of compiling the drivers for the hardware VM-Ware does not support.
Implicitly @Andy_Wismer warned me about the hp P420i raid controller can be difficult to handle single driveâs⊠It does not expose them, it seems to be mandatory to put the driveâs in a raid or the HP wonât boot., Something to figure out later; probably need to boot form SD-card or USB to work around this.
For the time being set it up traditionally with a hardware raid 1 for two 450GB drives on which Proxmox is installed and a (HW) raid 5 for four 600GB drives server formatted as one LVM volume.
Add in a Virtual Bridge, and give it a name such as
vmbr2, vmbr23 or anything,. vmbr0 is the default lan, in Proxmox lingo: âPublic LANâ. This does not mean public like in Internet, but can be understood as Office or Home-LANâŠ
It would be really fantastic and highly appreciated by the whole community if you had the time and patience to share your knowledge/experiences by writing a detailed howto on implementing such a development Proxmox system.
I am sure that a very large number of NethServer users would support you for such a project.
Can you advice me how to setup an local running nfs for clients?
To be clear want to setup a network storage on the local pve instance for VMâs with the lowest overhead possible.
If I understand you right, you want to export local (and/or local-lvm) with NFS, is that right?
(These are the two default âVolumesâ a standard Proxmox will createâŠ)
I tend to avoid misusing Proxmox as a âNASâ for whatever sharing.
For one, it has NO Interface for this use.
I donât want to create issues if a reboot is needed or whatever.
Third: My Proxmox have very low IO capacity - any access to the local storage slows down ALL VMs, sometimes down to instability.
If youâre running on really powerful hardware, and running ZFS or CEPH, this does make senseâŠ
If you want to use a LXC Container, you must disable the standard setting âUnpriviledged Containerâ and set the features you need, ie samba or nfsâŠ
The above setting can only be changed at setup, or before a restore option. To change a wrongly set LXC, easiest way is a backup / restore.
It may be a bit more comfortable to set up a virtual NAS, like RockStor (Also playing with that at the momentâŠ). Gives you a nice GUI to set up and check usage of NFSâŠ
So it is not only meâŠ
