So today I had to power down the server to perform some maintenance. It was also the day that my local electric utility decided to replace a pole in my neighborhood. They were kind enough to warn us that power would be down, so I took the opportunity to power down the server in the morning before they began their work. I went to work, and when I got home, I did some moving around of equipment around the Server that I had been wanting to do for a while. Unfortunately, when I powered the server back on, it started-up just fine but threw the dreaded “no bootdrive detected”.
SSD’s by their very nature are perfect for most every situation, EXCEPT WRITE INTENSIVE applications. Turns out that I was NOT paying attention when I originally installed Proxmox on the SSD with ZFS format. Or more specifically, I wasn’t aware of the bad choice I was making. I should have gone with EXT4 as the type of FileSystem instead of ZFS. Bad sysadmin!