Recent content by Steijn van Essen

See also: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Container_and_Full_Virtualization Best regards, Steijn

Hello Unni, As a newbie myself I cannot help you w your blank screen issue. But when it comes to VM vs CT it seems that CT performs (slightly) better for at least the following reasons: - only application is loaded in CT, no OS (i.e. Linux) is loaded because its already running "under the hood"...

On the other hand, storage overhead for an LVM VG (volume group) might be much lower initially (say M as the overhead percentage for a single PV, with M <<1.0, that is, very or quite low). However, as I understood it, LVM meta data is duplicated to every PV in the VG and M will increase for...

Let's now turn from RAID to LVM: When I recently tried to install PVE 3.x I was unhappily surprised to see my carefully prepared partitioning and formatting scheme to be messed up. Instead of complaining I started reading on LVM (from which I knew nothing). I concluded that adding LVM to...

First of all: thumbs up for Dominic for writing the PVE-on-software-RAID and for Tom to add a Wiki page on this. When reading the English translation of the HowTo (I can read German but English is second nature :-) it occured to me that: - activating PVE on sw RAID is not an easy task; - it...

Bonding continued ... When using bonding for bandwidth reasons I guess Pirateghost is right, for you might want (or need) to set up channel interfaces (multiple NIC/link interfaces that are controlled by special link protocoles like LACP). For the latter you need intelligent (managed) switches...

Bonding continued ... When using bonding for bandwidth reasons I guess Pirateghost is right, for you might want (or need) to set up channel interfaces (multiple NIC/link interfaces that are controlled by special link protocoles like LACP). For the latter you need intelligent (managed) switches...

2) Bonding I would consider part of a L2 (OSI layer 2) solution. Such solution allows a single (virtual) MAC address to be shared between multiple NICs. If bonding were to be used for availability then I agree w Dietmar that using 4 NICs is overkill. But to get more bandwidth 4 NICs could be...

The above only works for incoming sessions. If the server/host needs to use multiple NICS for initiation of sessions from its own side then maybe NAT overload would be needed (a technique that allows multiple NICS (not necessarily on the same server) share a single IP address for outgoing...

Hi Rob, Possible solutions depend on what you want to achieve. Some ideas on this: 1) host name load balancing: if you want to make your (web) service highly available or increase its nwk througput, then you can give each of your NICS its own IP address (not even necessarily in the same...

Brad, As a newbie to ProxMox I'm afraid I cannot be of anymore help to you. But concerning the RGManager issue: are you talking IP multicast here?! Clever that you found the problem. I recall loosing my IPTV signal once when connecting my provider router TV port to a newly created VLAN meant...

And some more: File systems: since I want to integrate my real environment w my virtual environment I will use cifs/smb for my Windows clients and probably nfs for my ProxMox nodes, Linux clients (real and virtual) and nfs for rsync backups. I can't advise you on VM backups. I will have to...

Sorry I was not able to finish my reply earlier, here it comes: Since you only have one node you might consider sw RAID instead of hw RAID. At the cost of a small (?) performance penalty you'll be able to recreate your "software RAID controller" after it crashed. Having said this I will not...

Hello Ipallard, As a ProxMox newbie myself I cannot advise you. But I can share some thoughts w u with respect to your three key elements: - data reliability and integrity: IMO these elements refer to the protection from tampering of your data by someone. Protective measures for this may...

Hi Brad, It might not be of much help but a couple of hours ago I stumbled over this page: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Migration It contains some syntaxs examples as well as known problems. Steijn