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So you have much more experience then I do :) Do I understand correctly that if I add to bond 2 LAN adapters doing VLAN or without VLAN, in case of my one nic or switch failure the system will work?

If I can use rules for private network it makes sense. Thanks I will look for the information on QuS! My network cards don't support 802.3ad. As I read alb mode loadbalance a single stream, but CEPH makes more requests with a lot of streams so it useful I think. All my servers will have a single...

Let's say I bond two NICs and add on that bond one VLAN for public network and other VLAN for private network. As I understand that in case of disk failure, the restore process will start and all my private network bandwidth (1GB+1GB bond) will be used. Public network will suffer. So how does...

So you mean that I can do the bond on Proxmox and then I could set this bond also for VM or CT. That is great. I thought that it's impossible. Because my 2 switches ar not support stacking and my 1Gbps LAN cards not support 802.3ad, my best bet I think to use balance-alb (mode 6). I will asure...

Doing VLAN's the performance of the network won't be affected? I don't tell that I will have 2 switches. One cable from the NIC-A goes to Switch-A and the NIC-B goes to Switch-B. This is for loadbalancing and fail-over. Do I understand correctly that I don't need to configure anything on both...

Thanks. I plan that mechanical HDD will contain millions of small files after 3 years. So here is a dilemma, or to have LXC with better performance because servers are quite weak, but have trouble with backup/restore. Or use KVM, and always have lower performance and quicker restore procedure...

I want to bond NIC-A and NIC-B in order to have performance and fail-over. This bonded interface will be used for CEPH public and private networks. So now the question, can I create CT or VM from Proxmox GUI and add a network card NIC-A for CT's and VM's for networking?

LXC has more performance comparing to KVM. But as I read LXC container backup is a quite slow, because it is like a type of the file system backup. I mean you need to copy like all the files with LXC and KVM is just a single huge file. Could someone tell me if I backup 2TB container of very...

Ok, understood. Thanks for your time.

I see that you understand what you are talking. This is very useful information.Each server will have 2 networks cards. I read that Ceph needs to cards for internal and public traffic. So I safe here I guess. Would you suggest to go with LXC or KVM on Ceph, knowing that each server is with only...

Ok, thanks for the answer. I slowly get the whole picture. I didn't think that lower grade SSD is so low on IOPS. I also noticed that XFS, according to your document will use 50% of free RAM. Actually my servers are quite old and each has only 16GB RAM. Investing in better network cards will...

Hi, for each server I have 2 HHD and 1 SSD disks. I wonder do I really need to put Proxmox OS on ZFS raid1 with two disks or just use a single HDD disk, because in HA cluster environment in case of server (virtual machine) failure another server (VM) automatically will take place? So this...

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Thanks for the answer. I plan to use onle 1 OSD, maybe up to 2 OSD and that is it. On every node I will use 1 guest (a single OpenVz or KVM machine, please advice me which is not so resource hungry on CEPH). This machine will have 10-12GB of RAM, so I can dedicate 6-4GB for the CEPH, Proxmox...

Hi, I plan to build my first ceph cluster and have some newbie questions. In the beginning I will start with 5 nodes, and plan to reach 50 nodes. Those nodes quite old (CPU E3,16GB RAM, 2x1Gbps network), so I think to gain the performance in adding more nodes but not upgrading RAM or CPU. I...