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Aalexskysilk replied to the thread Proxmox cluster limited to 2 nodes - adding Ceph-only nodes.based on that requirement, seems like option 2 is the only rational solution- or, BTW, there are other ways to get fault tolerant storage- you can buy it. a Dell ME50xx or HP MSA26xx would do the trick nicely. penny wise, pound foolish...
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Aalexskysilk replied to the thread [TUTORIAL] PVE 7.x Cluster Setup of shared LVM/LV with MSA2040 SAS [partial howto].This is only true if the underlying storage is also thick provisioned. You are conflating hardware snapshot=all snapshots. Its true that pve does not provide any built in orchestration tools for hardware snapshotting- but the option to make your...
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Aalexskysilk replied to the thread Proxmox cluster limited to 2 nodes - adding Ceph-only nodes.any storage solution has a sweet spot, but that spot is completely dependent on its use. ceph scales well with number of initiators, which in the hypervisor use case can translate to number of VMs. if you have 3 VMs, you can scale to 100 nodes...
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Aalexskysilk replied to the thread New Proxmox Setup for Enterprise - best practices.oh for sure. but I think you're concentrating on the wrong thing. why? whats wrong with what you have now? "as possible" is a, forgive me for my bluntness, a stupid metric. if I were you, I'd start by asking the question "what are the goals, and...
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Aalexskysilk replied to the thread [TUTORIAL] PVE 7.x Cluster Setup of shared LVM/LV with MSA2040 SAS [partial howto].Why is LVM thin required? your SAN is likely thin provisioned anyway, so it serves no actual benefit to thin provision above that. the problem was that there was no snapshot support, not the lvm thin part. your SAN either supports dedup or it...