I just haven’t gotten around to setting it up is all.

I set up a mail stack on Rocky Linux with Postfix, Dovecot, and rspamd. I don’t need a database because it’s all LDAP on the backend, and I don’t have webmail setup right now because I’m lazy. It’s a bit of a hassle to get up and running well but it’s pretty solid and I’m careful about managing my domain reputation so I don’t have any issues with my mail being delivered.

yeah, I’m pretty radically left as it is but I’ve seen a few tankie posts and boy are those threads to stay away from.

i think I’ll give that a shot

did you pass through the disks or straight on zfs?

lots of people view the computer landscape as PCs and Macs. nevermind that Macs are pretty much always personal computers (as in computer hardware designed for use by a single individual at a time; non-server hardware)

I really really like Fedora Server, but any RHEL derivative is my go to for servers. I use Rocky Linux when I need something closer to RHEL, and Fedora server for pretty much everything else. I highly recommend Cockpit as well (main reason I like Fedora server) as it has allowed me to so easily manage all of my servers from a single point.

I prefer Fedora Server. It comes with a lot of nice integrations into more enterprise/centralized Linux administration and management tools. A lot of these are FOSS so if you like infrastructure, this is a really good way to take an easy step up.

Thanks for the insight. It’s something I’ll definitely consider

Turns out they put the H730 in the server already so I never got an H330. I want to test the SMART data but it looks like the newer firmware should be fine.

Ok cool. I need to update everything anyways so once I get around to that I’ll test the H730 a bit but it seems that the newer firmware should be ok for ZFS

that’s generally what I’m hearing so I think I’ll give that a shot. I’ll keep the H730 on hand as I want to do some testing with it.

It seems that the issues may be quite a bit deeper than they seem. That the cache on the H730 can cause subtle issues. Are you able to get SMART information from the H730 for the disks?

It kinda depends, on custom kernels DKMS can be incredibly helpful. Like for a hardened kernel, a lot of drivers may be loaded via DKMS.

Thanks for the really helpful perspective!

I’ve been reading that the updated firmware for the PERC H730 has no issues in HBA mode, and there’s a thread from December in the Proxmox forums on using an H330 and H730 and they seem to work fine. I’m trying to get more clarification in that thread, but I’ll also do some testing myself.

I’m a college student and I already dropped a lot on the server. I haven’t gone too deep into my planning for upgrades yet aside from the H730, more RAM when I can afford it, and more drives. I’ll take the 8TB drives into consideration though, I’d just have to build that up a lot slower but it’d give me a lot of space. 10x8TB would be fun to have

depends, they can also loaded via dkms which may not require it

An H330 came with the server and I bought an H730 with it. I’d prefer to use one of those if possible

Thanks a ton! I’m on the proxmox forums trying to figure out if I should stick with the H330 that came with the server and return/sell the H730 I got, or if I should use the H730. Seems there’s a recent thread where they’re figuring it out so I’ll get to the bottom of it.