{"repo":"SwamiRama/10-ways-to-ruin-proxmox","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/SwamiRama/10-ways-to-ruin-proxmox","clone":"git clone https://github.com/SwamiRama/10-ways-to-ruin-proxmox.git","description":"A practical field guide to Proxmox VE anti-patterns: 10 ways to wreck your setup, and how to avoid them.","language":null,"stars":158,"topics":["ebook","guide","homelab","proxmox","sysadmin","virtualization"],"license":null,"category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"10 Ways to Ruin Your Proxmox Setup - And How Not To This repository contains the source code for the book \"10 Ways to Ruin Your Proxmox Setup - And How Not To\" . 🚀 TL;DR: What You Will Learn This guide bridges the gap between \"it works\" and \"it works reliably.\" Most Proxmox tutorials show you how to click through the installer, but they don't tell you why your VMs feel sluggish on that shiny new RAIDZ pool, or why your cluster locked up when you unplugged one node. You will learn: 1. Storage Architecture: Why RAIDZ kills VM performance and why ZFS needs more RAM than the popular \"1 GB per TB\" rule suggests. 2. High Availability: Why enabling HA on 2 nodes guarantees downtime (and how to fix it). 3. Operations: How to backup correctly, why Docker belongs in a VM, and how to monitor the silence before the crash. --- 📖 Sneak Peek Why RAIDZ is (usually) a mistake for VMs \"The counterintuitive result is that a RAIDZ vdev with six disks delivers random IOPS roughly equivalent to a single disk.\" You'll learn why RAIDZ excels at large sequential files (Backups, ISOs) but crumbles under the random I/O of Virtual Machines. The guide explains why Mirrored VDEVs (RAID 10) are almost always the superior choice for VM workloads, even if it costs you some capacity. The \"Host CPU\" Trap \"The 'host' CPU type is seductive because it makes intuitive sense... until you try to migrate.\" Using the host CPU type gives maximum performance but breaks live migration between different CPU generations.","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/SwamiRama","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/SwamiRama/10-ways-to-ruin-proxmox/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}