Help with setup please

5x 14TB drives in Raid-Z2 as bulk storage in one VDEV / pool. 2x SSD in a mirror VDEV for applications and VMs.

Suggesting Raid-Z2 because of the size of the drives and that gives you two drives of redundantcy. Suggesting Mirror of SSD for faster storage of apps and VMs, one drive of redundancy.

I don’t believe you need L2ARC nor SLOG devices for your use case.

BASICS

iX Systems pool layout whitepaper

Special VDEV (sVDEV) Planning, Sizing, and Considerations

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