Probably the most interesting new feature in Proxmox 9 (Beta 1):

Finally we're able to create #Snapshots of VMs with shared block storage (such like #iSCSI, #FibreChannel & #NVMeoF) with LVM Thick without doing dirty workarounds. Well done Proxmox (& Alex!).

Recently, I created a plugin (including PVE UI integration) for #NetApp based storages to create storage side snapshots.

PS: #ProxLB also already supports PVE9!

#Proxmox #blockstorage#Proxmox9#PVE #virtualization #beta#OnTap

A video of the PVE UI, showing a shared iSCSI storage across three Proxmox VE 9 beta 1 nodes with a thick LVM group shared which has the new experimental feature for "Storage-Managed Snapshots" activated.
A video of the PVE UI, showing a shared iSCSI storage across three Proxmox VE 9 beta 1 nodes with a thick LVM group shared which has the new experimental feature for "Storage-Managed Snapshots" activated.

I don't know if anybody noticed #ZeroFS yet, but it seems there is a completely user space-implementation of #NFS and #blockstorage on top of #S3 #objectstorage: https://github.com/Barre/zerofs

Including a demo running #ZFS on top of it which essentially allows geo-redundant ZFS volumes: https://asciinema.org/a/728234 & https://github.com/Barre/zerofs?tab=readme-ov-file#geo-distributed-storage-with-zfs

I don't see no #FreeBSD port yet, but if that really works it would be absolutely awesome.

#OpenZFS