Proxmox - Disks - Add Storage Drives - ZFS Pools

It is recommended by Proxmox to use ZFS Pools for Storing your VMs.

ZFS gives you more performance and Redundancy.

List Drives

ls /dev/disk/by-id

zpool create -f -m <mount> <pool> <type> <ids>

returns:

NOTE: where:

create: subcommand to create the pool.
-f: Force creating the pool to bypass the “EFI label error”.
-m: The mount point of the pool. If this is not specified, then the pool will be mounted to root as /pool.
pool: This is the name of the pool.
type: mirror, raidz, raidz2, raidz3. If omitted, the default type is a stripe or raid 0.
ids: The names of the drives/partitions to include in the pool obtained from ls /dev/disk/by-id.

Example:

zpool create -f -m /mnt/zstorage  zstorage raidz2 <ids>

zpool list
zpool list -v
zpool iostat
zpool iostat -v

pvesm zfsscan

zfs create zstorage/iso
zsf create zstorage/share
zsf create zstorage/vmstorage
zsf create zstorage/cnstorage

zfs set quota=1000G zstorage/iso

zfs list
zpool status
zpool iostat -v

Navigate to Datacenter → Storage → Add → Directory → zstorage/iso.

IMPORTANT: Make sure only ISO image and Container template are selected.

Navigate to Directory → Add → ZFS → Id: vmstorage → ZFS Pool: /zstorage/vmstorage.