Google Nest (Mini) Cannot delete scheduled tasks

So you have a Google Nest Mini (this may apply to other models too) and you said to it turn on a light everyday at 8pm. This cannot currently be deleted or amended. Huge flaw! 

I asked mine to turn on a light at 4.20pm everyday and it misheard me and chose 4.20am for all lights including bedrooms - not cool! 

This link explains the issue:

https://www.howtogeek.com/748360/hey-google-scheduled-actions-are-giving-people-nightmares/amp/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

The solution (workaround!) - create a new "Home" in your Google home app. Call it something different and move all your devices to it one by one. Invite your family members to it and delete the older Home. Then you can rename the home to the name your original "home" was called.

Sadly there is no way to stop this happening again! My advice is to use the devices own primary apps to create schedules. They're generally fuller featured too as Google home only supports the more basic primary functions.  

Dell R510 (also R610,R710 etc) with H700 Perc card and Proxmox with ZFS

 

The Dell Perc H700 card cannot do pass-through (aka non-RAID aka raw disk aka JBOD). Ideally this is needed for ZFS and other similar technologies including VMware VSAN.

ZFS needs complete and direct access to your disks without going through any middleman RAID controller. However you can create a raid0 volume of each individual disk in raid config ([CTRL] +[R] when booting) and present that. Proxmox will warn that this is a bad idea and rightly so - but it will work and will detect each of those drives and allow you install the the base system as ZFS on those.

You may prefer to segregate your boot from your data - ie: have a RAID1 mirror with possibly ext4 for Proxmox itself and then have the rest as raid0 presented drives formatted with ZFS. 

This process of having drives presented as individual RAID0 instances isn't supported by ZFS or Proxmox but oddly is supported in VMware VSAN. Another difference which is interesting is that with VSAN mixed mode is not supported - say with a Dell Perc H730 in R730 for example, you can put your OS (esxi) on a RAID1 mirror and then leave the remaining drives as raw pass-through. VSAN will work, but it isn't recommended or supported. 

For Proxmox storage with ZFS and to some extent also with VMware VSAN, the best option is avoid hardware RAID for data drives and get a HBA card for attaching those. If you haven't a HBA card you may be able to re-flash a RAID card but unfortunately this is not possible for the Dell Perc H700.

Proxmox ZFS transfer vs LVM, progress

 

Progress report of Migration with ZFS

If you're using LVM to migrate VMs between nodes you won't get any progress reported, with ZFS you get a percentage complete which is useful. WIth LVM migration between nodes, all you can do is issue "pkill -USR1 dd" on the terminal and it'll tell you how many GB are transferred at that moment, but not a percentage so it isn't easy to determine how long it'll take.