Good file servers for Proxmox?

Lifebandit666, 1 month ago

I don’t understand all the words you’re using but:

Having had Proxmox sort out my drives and having had failures and Proxmox refuse to start if the drive isn’t present (it was present but forgot it’s label so it wasn’t there for Proxmox) I recommend just passing through the drives to your NAS and having it handle the drives.

That way if they fail then your NAS fails but Proxmox boots.

Also if you’re mounting them directly use the “nofail” option so it doesn’t kill your Proxmox if you don’t just have the NAS handle it.

pyrosis, 1 month ago

Hmm. If you are going to have proxmox managing zfs anyway then why not just create datasets and share them directly from the hypervisor?

You can do that in terminal but if you prefer a gui you can install cockpit on the hypervisor with the zfs plugin. It would create a separate web gui on another port. Making it easy to create, manage, and share datasets as you desire.

It will save resources and simplify zfs management operations if you are interested in such a method.

erev, 1 month ago

i think I’ll give that a shot

NeoNachtwaechter, 1 month ago

I do it the other way round: proxmox leaves it’s hands away from the zpool. The 5 disks are passed through to a vm, everything ZFS starts there, and it offers the samba shares.

My directive is that the bare metal proxmox shall not offer any services to the world outside, only VM’s may do that.

Damage, 1 month ago

That’s what I’ve done as well, hard drives passed through, RAIDZ created on the NAS itself. It’s worked great so far.

tgxn, 1 month ago

Same! Two zpools on one Debian VM, shares NFS etc for everything else. I pass through PCIe sata cards to the VM, too.

SeeJayEmm, 1 month ago

I’ve been happily running Open Media Vault in a Proxmox VM for some time now.

erev, 1 month ago

did you pass through the disks or straight on zfs?

SeeJayEmm, 1 month ago

I didn’t pass any phy disks through, if that’s what you mean. I’m using that system for more than OMV. I created disks for the VM like I would any other VM.

tvcvt, 1 month ago

My go-to for this is a plain Debian or Ubuntu container with Cockpit and the 45Drives file sharing plugin. It’s pretty straightforward and works pretty well.

computabloke, 1 month ago

Seconded on Cockpit project w File Sharing.

Probably not best practice, but it’s possible to install it on the PVE host itself since its ZFS manager and Identity manager plugins and other features fills some gaps in what Proxmox doesn’t do (or would have to drop to CLI to do).

Also recommend RClone in a systemd can take care of various file movements, syncs and backup tasks you may need against the host, vdumps or SMB file shares.

___, 1 month ago

To add to this, here is a tutorial with video that goes into the permissions. One of the cockpit modules has had an update, so make sure you bump the version number.

• I had to make it a privileged container to get NFS working. If you only need SMB, unprivileged is fine. There’s nfs-utils for userspace nfs setups, but I haven’t futz with it yet.

www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/ultimate_nas/

I replaced a TrueNAS install with this and haven’t been happier. It was such a bloated resource hog for what an LXC and a podman/dockge install can do.