Setup ZFS Pool inside Proxmox

ZFS Pool inside Proxmox PVE
It is very simple to create and use it.
For this demo i will use 2x 2TB USB External drives. I DO NOT RECOMENT to use those drives for enything else on Proxmox apart of quick testing. USB Drives will fail much faster than any other internal storage media and all your files will be lost.

- Series Playlist

Chapters
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:09 Why Laptop?
- 02:35 ZFS On Proxmox
- 03:05 Setup Process
- 07:39 ZFS Datasets
- 09:14 Adding ZFS Datasets to Proxmox
- 10:45 Using new ZFS locations
- 15:40 5 Drive Bay
- 16:59 Whats next?
- 17:07 The End

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[dhruvdnar]

Guys like these are the secret legends of youtube. Providing real value that lasts years, just waiting to be discovered by the next n00b like me :)

[jonnyzeeee]

Great video. Thanks for this! Just wanted to add that at 10:12 instead of adding VM-Drives as a directory storage you can add it as ZFS storage. That way you'll be able to snapshot your VMs and containers.

[JoshArchers]

This was so helpful. The explanation of not adding storage straight away and adding directories with the type of your choice was the bit of knowledge I was missing. This video helped unblock the next stage of setting up my Proxmox server. Thank you!

[totolo]

This was such a great video. I appreciated how you just walked through the process at a steady pace so that I could follow. You demonstrated why not to do something and you didnt get stuck through any of it. Keep up the great work!

[daviddunkelheit]

I like that you are showing an economical solution for homelab projects. I’ve seen so many presentations with inaccessible or prohibitively expensive equipment. I also heard that while it is advantageous to have the disks from the same vendor of the same size for mirrored arrays. That they shouldn’t be from the same factory or product run as that increases the probability of a systemic failure from production of the hardware. There is less of a chance flaw if they are from different manufacturing line.

[weholmes]

Exactly the guide I needed! I was trying to set up ZFS with two 2TB NVME drives and your tips on using “zfs create” and “move storage” made it so easy. I was afraid I would have to remake my VMs! 😅 Fantastic! 👍

[stephenpauljones]

great tutorial, just delving into proxmox and your correct you can go overboard with hardware, keeping it simple its key to start then you scale up.

[notsrynot]

This is great for beginners like me. For instance I liked how when you where creating the directory you took a second to show the viewer the location of the directory you were creating in the shell to show them how you got that information

[marcbaumann]

Stumbled on these videos and going through them one by one. Absolutely great to get an understanding on Homelabs and all these great opensource tools and in the sametime building a proper environment up at home. Great work, it helps me a lot in getting things actually done! Keep doing this, it's much appreciated!

[Fun_Drippin]

MR.P is the best. I am finally setting up my proxmox server properly

[bewilderedlearningevolving]

Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Clear, simple to understand, feel a lot better about the entire ZFS config in my Proxmox box! Huzzah!

[gerry]

I like the fact that you are doing this in a low power. do with what you have way. exactly what I am interested in.. Very good.

[chrisweis]

Super video, helped me immensely! Love how you walked through it so clearly, and edited the video to minimize waiting. Thanks!

[TomBrown]

finally the correct explanation about why i couldnt setup directories the way I wanted - even chatgpt was no help 🙂

[vklab]

Impossible someone to dislike your effort! Great job! Thanks

[derrikarenal]

Excellent ! on a laptop ! this guy has achieved hero-status; a shining example of "the under-staffed, accomplishing the impossible, equipped with a nothing(laptop)."

[DavincisMind]

excellent video. You made my life much easier :-) Only thing I wish you mention or explain is why to create and use ZFS as I'm learning everything about Proxmox. Thank you for sharing.

[preyevates]

Very helpful as a new proxmox adopter. I was stuck here and your video corrected that.

[leapmotionio]

Rarely seen a video so clean and on point while matching the video title.
Thank you very much! :)

[francoiswilliams]

Brilliant presentation! I was glued to this video as if it was a suspense movie. Also took my time to take proper notes! It is seldom that you find someone that goes into so much depth of a topic and present it so well. Liked and subscribed. Will definitely check out your other videos. I have definitely learnt such a lot already. Kudos