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i work in the used refurb server market and havent ever seen one of those...  so bad choice of a riad card.
microsemi or lsi are the 2 main players

I now all that, my very young padawan ;-) - I bought them ~2000 and used them for > 20 years. Beat that longevity with your LSI specimens...

The only reason I entered ZFS later than Patrick is, because I actually am a Linux expert and the Linux adoption of ZFS was way later than with *BSD. Speaking of this: If your LSI and Broadcom adapters are badly supported under Linux, then those are probably a bad choice...

you are correct thats why im using hyper-v :)  although i think there is quite good linux driver support for broadcom.  its just that most dont use hardware raid on linux.

We dropped hardware RAID between 2009 (FreeBSD 8) and 2012 (FreeBSD 9). Not looking back. I run >100 physical machines in 5 data centres, all with ZFS.

im sure it works well,  but its not always the best way for everyone. Clearly you are skilled in linux and thats why it works well for you.
I persoanlly manage windows domains and sticking with hyper-v is the easiest way to do that.

I do not think I confused anything: I wrote "HBA raid adapters" (should have written "raid HBAs") and meant Areca ARC1280, which are in fact raid host bus adapters. And I can assure you will have a hard time replacing those with software or other brand adapters.

They worked fine at their time, but time moves on and ZFS has merits way beyond RAID, namely compression, checksumming and snapshots, plus the capability to work across OSes and HBA brands.

Especially the checksumming feature is really important: I once had one HDD that wrote defective data without telling. It seemed like it had a defective RAM buffer. In case you did not know: classic RAID does not help with that, while ZFS does! It also helps with nowadays huge drives, where errors can also statistically go unnoticed in the disk itself.

i work in the used refurb server market and havent ever seen one of those...  so bad choice of a riad card.
microsemi or lsi are the 2 main players

Proxmox does support hardware RAID if there is a driver for the controller in question. Virtual volumes created by a RAID controller are just regular SCSI disks to the OS.

Proxmox also supports ZFS.

Now if you meant if both can be managed in the UI - then the answer is no. You need to use the builtin RAID controller setup tools and the command line for ZFS.

But it does work with both.

I'd challenge the claim that "hardware RAID is faster". Also there is always vendor lock in. If the RAID controller fails years after deployment of the machine and you cannot get the same model or at least brand/series, your data is toast. A ZFS pool can always be read by any current Linux, FreeBSD or even Mac OS.

there is no worry on replacing the card. lsi/broadom cards work with each other and see foreign configs.  and there are hundrends of older cards still out in wild.  ive taken a raid config from a sas2 card and put in a sas3 card sees config just fine and works. 

Proxmox can use many filesystem types as storage layers: LVM, ZFS, CEPH and also XFS, BTRFS and EXT4. And you can put most, if not all of those on a hardware raid block device.

Actually, Proxmox is Debian-based, so anything that is supported there, will do just fine. Been there, done that.

And Patrick is right: With the advent of ZFS, I finally replaced all of my HBA raid adapters.

dont confuse HBA and raid.  2 diff things
for nvme i agree software raid is really good.

megaraid for lsi/broadcom is a giant mess in proxmox.  looks like hba mode is only thing that worsk which i dont want for my setup.  otherwise ide take another look.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/lsi-megaraid-9341-4i-controller-supported-in-proxmox-ve-8.138728/

Really Hyper-V has never been interested in creating compatibility with freeBSD. Hyper-V for tinkering is fine, but that is the reason it is hardly ever in my experience used in industry.
Don't bother with Hyper-v for anything but clicking around to learn some concepts. But you might as well learn with something you can use and rely on. Proxmox, Xen, etc. Even VirtualBox will be better for this.

proxmox doesnt support hardware raid which is still faster. i just loaded up my 2nd baremetal system for opnsense.   btw hyper-v was working fine for 6 months.  most likely a server 25 update.  what i get for using latest greatest :)  some things proxmox is still not as good for though

Hello bandit8623, did you find anything about how ixv drivers can be loaded on a hyper-v virtualized opnsense?
I'm having the same problem...

after a reboot my vm in hyper-v stopped booting today.  was after a server 2025 update.  all my other vms boot fine though.  annoying

even on desktop.  i have no ad blocks.  unless chrome now is blocking by default?
 
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Hi all,

It looks like the options are much more robust now than when i looked last.  eventually ill be migrating over. 

Thanks

yes super confusing.  also why get rid of create cert while making user?

this is a downgrade

Hi,

I believe you have an ad blocker plugin installed in your browser. Websites can detect them because they operate through a proxy. Zenarmor prevents ads while a session is active, making it unnoticeable to websites.

it doesnt seem to.  i went into chrome setting on my android phone and i cant find any adblock setting.
i dont have any adblock installed.  and it seems to happen mostly on the mobile chrome app. 

Does it happen on your Laptop/PC for the same site?

That would indicate, as Sy said, it is being blocked at device level on your mobile and not OPNsense/Zenarmor.

interesting.  ill keep an eye on it.  use zen free at home and have paid sub at work.

today at work no warnings.  ill see what its does at home.

Hi,

I believe you have an ad blocker plugin installed in your browser. Websites can detect them because they operate through a proxy. Zenarmor prevents ads while a session is active, making it unnoticeable to websites.

it doesnt seem to.  i went into chrome setting on my android phone and i cant find any adblock setting.
i dont have any adblock installed.  and it seems to happen mostly on the mobile chrome app. 

Does it happen on your Laptop/PC for the same site?

Hi,

I believe you have an ad blocker plugin installed in your browser. Websites can detect them because they operate through a proxy. Zenarmor prevents ads while a session is active, making it unnoticeable to websites.

i dont have any adblock installed.  and it seems to happen mostly on the mobile chrome app. 

Hello,

seems websites now are doing the turn off adblocker popups more than ever.  does zen armor have a way around this?
some sites allow you to select "ill fix it next time" 
some sites wont let you browse until ad blockers are off.
Seems to happen more on mobile devices
Thanks for any help.  i use the free zenarmor for home and for biz we have a paid sub.

Hello bandit8623, did you find anything about how ixv drivers can be loaded on a hyper-v virtualized opnsense?
I'm having the same problem...

no sorry im passing through for now until i figure it out. sorry for delay on response i dont get email notifications on here for some reason..

passthrough working well just cant snapshot..