Best boot and vm drive configuration for Proxmox

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Hi Everyone,

I’m putting together a new home-lab build and I want to try out Proxmox VE for the first time.
I’m looking for some advice on storage configurations for the boot drive and a drive to run the VMs from.

  • What is your preferred configuration?
  • Do you use NVMe or SATA SSDs for both, or strictly enterprise grade SSDs?
  • How do you handle redundancy & Backus?
  • Do you mirror either of those drives? If so, how? Is there a good software RAID (ZFS/Motherboard RAID) way to provide redundancy that also works for the boot drive?

Let me know your approach, and importantly, why you made the decisions you did.

Thank you!

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Just use your common sense.

  • Mirrors.
  • SAS SSD.
  • I don’t need HA in my HomeLab, backup VM daily.
  • I Mirror all SSD in proxmox machine. ZFS.

I’m newbie to PVE, just try to use common sense. Why I need HomeLab? To learn… To play… To joy…