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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.I do have the SSDs, 2x400GB per chassis, unless they used to come with even more SSDs...
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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.Thanks for all the advise, will be playing with stuff and trying things :) Out of curiosity, while I know HDDs are not great these are SAS disks which should provide better performance and all in all this system when it was running vxrail was...
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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.NFS boot will probably apply to some guests but mostly it will be a selfcontained playground where we can break things and try things faster than elsewhere.
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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.Yes This is the first foot in the door for Proxmox, the main goal at the moment is that I get a lab env with less of the encumberments of the way they currently mostly work, as an aside plus it may show some of the good sides of Proxmox. The...
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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.It has 4 10GbE NICs (Intel X550), I believe all are connected to a switch at 10GbE but I don't have access to switch atm and enabling more than 1 port led to spanning tree issues so at least until the person in charge of all of that is a bit more...
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KKeeper of the Keys replied to the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph.Boot sits on ZRAID1 sata SSDs (which were barely hit by usage due to vmware I guess not writing a lot to the OS disks)
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KKeeper of the Keys posted the thread Repurposing vxrails hardware with Ceph in Proxmox VE: Installation and configuration.At a place I am working at I have been given access to a set of old vxrails machines to implement a Proxmox PoC (and I hope I'll be able to help them migrate from VMware to Proxmox in the future :)). The machines are 3 Dell S570 (probably from...