Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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ZFS, BTRFS, LVM, Directory. There are many options for storing VM images on a disk in Proxmox and other KVM based hypervisors. In this video, I take a look at the features and performance of all of these different storage methods.

For my test system I used a Xeon E5 2643 V4 system running Proxmox VE 7.2-7 with 128GB RAM, and a PM1725 as the test ssd.