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I use Intel NICs in production except for the 700-series on Dell servers without issues. I do have Dell servers with Broadcom 1GbE which work fine but don't have having any 10/25GbE Broadcoms in production. May want to ask your question on Reddit.

At work, migrated from VMware to Proxmox. The question was which filesystem provides native snapshots? For standalone servers, it was ZFS. For clusters, it was Ceph. I think of Ceph as an open-source version of vSAN. Researched Ceph and find out it wants homogeneous hardware. So made sure the...

May also want to ask your question on Reddit's r/ceph

Took a look at the SCv3020 manual and it seems this storage unit supports direct connection to SAS. Proxmox should be able to see each individual drive. I use ZFS in production on standalone servers for its data/metadata error checking, compression, and snapshots. For max IOPS, I use ZFS...

At work, I'm involved with migrating Dells from VMware to Proxmox. I just make sure all hardware and firmware is the same (CPU, NIC, Storage, RAM, etc). I do swap out the PERC for Dell HBA330. I use two small drives and use ZFS RAID-1 for Proxmox. Rest of drives are for VMs/data. ZFS provides...

I use Supermicros at work and at home without issues. Also use Dells at work without issues. Supermicro configurator at wiredzone.com

Should just work since the 9300 uses the LSI 3008 chipset which works with mpt2sas driver. I use the Dell HBA330 in production which has the same chipset and runs without issues.

I stood up a 3-node full-mesh broadcast Ceph Squid test cluster using these instructions https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Full_Mesh_Network_for_Ceph_Server#Broadcast_Setup Zero issues. I did use a 169.254.3.0/24 network for Ceph public, private, & Corosync traffic since 169.254.0.0/16 is a IPv4...

ZFS provides bit-rot protection, snapshots, and compression. I use a H200 (flashed to IT-mode) in a Dell R200 as a bare-metal Proxmox Backup Server using ZFS RAID-1. No issues.

Another option is ZFS replication at intervals. It won't be real-time replication like Ceph though. I've ran Ceph using 1GbE full-mesh broadcast network on 14-year old servers and it worked surprisingly well. I don't recommend it for production though.

It is but I do have experience managing proprietary hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms at work like VMware vSAN and Nutanix AHV. I'm also involved with another project at work in which they are migrating to Hyper-V HCI. Can't beat Proxmox & Ceph as a HCI platform.

Reason I brought up Supermicro at all was that they offer a range of motherboards from mini-ITX to ATX form factors. You can optionally get 10GbE networking (both wired & optic), SAS controller (for more drives), and either an embedded or socketed CPU. I use a Supermicro 5019S-M-G1585L as a...

I run Proxmox on 12th, 13th, & 14th-gen Dells at work. Can't beat used 13th-gen Dells for the value. For example, the R730xd. Can use the rear drives for mirroring Proxmox and front drives for data/VMs. Can replace the PERC with HBA330 for true IT-mode storage controller. Can optionally get...

While it's true PERCs do support HBA passthrough, they use the megaraid driver. Whereas, a Dell HBA, like a HBA330, uses the much simpler mp3sas driver. I swapped out all PERCs from 13th & 14th-gen Dells and replaced them with HBA330s. No issues.

I run a 10GbE Ceph in production. Since Ceph is a scale-out solution, I would make a 7-node Ceph cluster and use the other server as a bare-metal Proxmox Backup Server or use it a replacement server if other nodes fails. Just make sure all hardware is the same (RAM, CPU, NIC, Storage, firmware...

I run a 5-node R720 Ceph cluster in production. I made sure to flash the PERC to IT-mode using this guide https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html Ceph is scale out and loves lots of OSDs. Not hurting for IOPS with workloads ranging from DBs to DHCP servers. I use the following optimizations...

Way better off flashing the H310 to IT-mode and using ZFS RAID. H310 RAID by default has very low queues which leads to terrible IOPS. Flashing it to IT-mode gets you the max queues. Flash using this guide https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html I have a fleet of 12th-gen Dells PERCs flashed to...

Typically with enterprise servers, SAS HDDs have write cache disabled because they are configured to be used HW RAID with a BBU. The HW RAID has built-in RAM cache. I too had terrible IOPS especially with Ceph when used with an IT-mode disk controller, ie, Dell H310 flashed to IT-mode or Dell...

Technically it should work. May want to ask your question at the Promox sub-Reddit forum. I do run production Proxmox Ceph clusters at work on Dells with no issues. I just made sure all hardware (RAM, CPU, NIC, Storage) is the same and running an IT-mode disk controller.

A 3-node Proxmox Ceph PoC does work. Don't recommend it in production in which you want a minimum of 5-nodes, so can lose 2 nodes and still be in business. I do have BOSS-S1 setup in ZFS RAID-1 to boot Proxmox. I use a Dell HBA300 for "true" IT-mode functionality. While 64GB will work for a...