The key attraction to virtualizing for me is to put all my servers on 1 physical host.
That's why I'm all for the storage feedback.
It means figuring out which drives take OSs and which drives are allocated for storage, and how much I/O limitations might hinder me.
I will gladly post my setup with Proxmox when I manage to get all my data onto a single drive and rebuild my tower with 8 cores, and 32GB RAM
My Proxmox Install
Re: My Proxmox Install
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HDA: VM inside oVirt FX-8300 95w (2 cores for HDA), 32GB RAM (2GB for HDA)
My PC: FX-8300, 16GB RAM, 3x 1TB HDDs, Radeon HD6970 2GB video; Win10 Pro x64
Other: PC, Asus 1215n (LXLE), Debian openZFS server (3x(2x2tb) mirrors)
Modem&Network: Thomson DCM475; Asus RT-AC66U; HP 1800-24G switch
HDA: VM inside oVirt FX-8300 95w (2 cores for HDA), 32GB RAM (2GB for HDA)
My PC: FX-8300, 16GB RAM, 3x 1TB HDDs, Radeon HD6970 2GB video; Win10 Pro x64
Other: PC, Asus 1215n (LXLE), Debian openZFS server (3x(2x2tb) mirrors)
Modem&Network: Thomson DCM475; Asus RT-AC66U; HP 1800-24G switch
Re: My Proxmox Install
i am kind of on the fence on this as far as Virtualized vs not.
With Amahi, the factors in my mind are reliability, physical diversity and ease of recovery.
I think the first two are simple to recover in a Proxmox deployment but not sure of the last.
The more complex you make the storage, the more complicated recovery gets.
I am trying to find a happy medium. Maximize the features of proxmox and virtualization, while ensuring if i have a major outage, i can get to my data with little pain.
This is really what has been driving my tinkering. Storage.......storage makes or breaks this for me.
With Amahi, the factors in my mind are reliability, physical diversity and ease of recovery.
I think the first two are simple to recover in a Proxmox deployment but not sure of the last.
The more complex you make the storage, the more complicated recovery gets.
I am trying to find a happy medium. Maximize the features of proxmox and virtualization, while ensuring if i have a major outage, i can get to my data with little pain.
This is really what has been driving my tinkering. Storage.......storage makes or breaks this for me.
Re: My Proxmox Install
Seems like an external NAS box or RAID box might be the best bet for recovering data easily.
Re: My Proxmox Install
i am leaning towards a NFS share within Proxmox to a openfiler or FreeNAS box as one of my greyhole drives. making sure it is big enough for one copy of all my itemsSeems like an external NAS box or RAID box might be the best bet for recovering data easily.
Re: My Proxmox Install
Just an update on my tinkering.
I actually had to revert one of the Proxmox boxes back to ESXi. As a Cisco Unified Communications Engineer, i am installing the latest UC beta software and it is only supported on VMWare.
I did have some success with Openfiler but my "production" design for Proxmox and Amahi will be using direct drive access for Amahi. I will do this by using a virtual disk nearly the same size as the physicals with .raw format.
This will allow me to accomplish my basic requirements around recoverability.
I will say i am leaning towards building an Ubuntu Amahi but havent made that decision yet. plenty of paid work to keep me busy enough where i dont have to make that decision yet.
I am wondering as to the maturity of Ubuntu but will not ask too much here since there are forum topics on the subject already.
I actually had to revert one of the Proxmox boxes back to ESXi. As a Cisco Unified Communications Engineer, i am installing the latest UC beta software and it is only supported on VMWare.
I did have some success with Openfiler but my "production" design for Proxmox and Amahi will be using direct drive access for Amahi. I will do this by using a virtual disk nearly the same size as the physicals with .raw format.
This will allow me to accomplish my basic requirements around recoverability.
I will say i am leaning towards building an Ubuntu Amahi but havent made that decision yet. plenty of paid work to keep me busy enough where i dont have to make that decision yet.
I am wondering as to the maturity of Ubuntu but will not ask too much here since there are forum topics on the subject already.
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