Proxmox Best Practices - Guest Storage

Why this post exists Every time I built a new VM I found myself re-litigating the same disk settings: cache mode, aio, whether iothread was worth it, discard on or off. The answers are scattered across forum threads, half of them stale, and a fair number of them wrong for the storage I actually run. So I sat down and worked out a set of defaults I could stop thinking about, then validated them against my own cluster. ...

May 11, 2026 · 15 min · 3057 words · Nate