Recent content by tokala

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    Debian 9 template

    Hi My tract is slightly different but it might help. I'm using PVE 5 and SaltStack to clone a template, rename and re-IP with Cloud-init, and finally install applications, Apache etc. I used a Cloud-init image to make things easier (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/), that way I...
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    3-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster - how to automatically distribute VMs among nodes?

    @victorhooi How do you mean integrated upstream to Proxomx? We use Open vSwitch because we have many vLANs the VMs could be connected to. All vLANs are trunked to Proxmox and all nodes are connected together using Open vSwitch as a virtual distributed switch. All VMs use vmbr0 and then the vLAN...
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    3-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster - how to automatically distribute VMs among nodes?

    Hi I run my DRS application off the Proxmox nodes so, if the node controlling DRS is down it still continues to work. I used a separate management VM which does a few things including running DRS. I am also working on a containerised version to make it easier to run. The nodes I use are all...
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    3-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster - how to automatically distribute VMs among nodes?

    Hi I have been working on the project for a while as an independent project. I haven't thought about contributing to Proxmox until you asked.
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    3-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster - how to automatically distribute VMs among nodes?

    Hi You will need to add shared storage using something like NFS or iSCSI plus shared networking. We use Open vSwitch to distribute the networking so any VM can run on any Node. I wrote a DRS package which monitors the load on each Node and then migrates VMs off the busy node onto the quieter...