I installed Proxmox VE 8.1 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes.

ld;dr: it installs fine but the hardware is not at the quality level I expected, machine was put into electronics recycling in late 2024.

I upgraded my existing ProxmoxVE version 7 install to version 8.1.

As expected, this was hassle free.

These are mainly my notes on cleaning out previous CephFS fiddlings.

Since I mostly do LVM and sometimes btrfs, here’s a short braindump of my first ZFS on Linux rodeo.

While for my virtualisation needs I am firmly in the Red Hat camp, an article in ix 9/2021 piqued my interest.

Since I was on a week of ‘staycation’ and the T7910 was not in use, I decided to test Proxmox VE 7.0 on a Dell Precision T7910 tying in my existing Ceph Nautilus storage for both RBD and CephFS use.

Since the new server is to be a hypervisor, there are configuration steps to be done.

My braindump follows.