Hi,
I have a Proxmox 6 install with a couple of 240GB mirrored SSDs for booting and Proxmox, a couple of 2 TB mirrored SSDs for containers and 4 2TB SSDs in Raid5 config for storage. The machine is a Dell T440 and it has a Perc Raid card with battery and 1GB of cache. All of these is installed at a company and working fine.
All the mirrors and Raid5 configs are held on the Perc so, from the O.O.S.S. view it has 3 disks: 240GB, 2TB and 6TB
First it was runing on Windows native and then we decided to upgrade the machine with the second processor, more RAM and the better Perc Card for this machine. And doing the upgrade we felt that will be better for the future to virtualize the Windows 2012 server that was running native on the machine.
So we installed Proxmox and a VM with the Windows 2012 Server plus a storage space for the Windows 2012 Server information (databases, documentation, etc.)
Everything right till now that they want to setup a couple of Windows Server VMs more. We're thinking about also upgrade all the S.S.O.O. to Windows 2022 Server.
I wonder if someone could advice me with the better config for this scenario, three Windows 2022 VMs and one storage unit that must be accesed from all three Windows VMs. I know that I can make one VM to access the storage unit and the other VMs will access through shares in the first VM (the way it's configured right now is LVM and I know that can't be shared). This setup will work but it'll be a bottleneck so I wonder if it could be done other way. I read that CephFS has the ability to be shared but I don't know anything about this and about realiability and perfomance and, what's more, if this can be done or has sense this way.
And, also, I'll upgrade to Proxmox 7 due to all these changes, upgrade or new install?
So, please, if someone could iluminate me will be great!
I have a Proxmox 6 install with a couple of 240GB mirrored SSDs for booting and Proxmox, a couple of 2 TB mirrored SSDs for containers and 4 2TB SSDs in Raid5 config for storage. The machine is a Dell T440 and it has a Perc Raid card with battery and 1GB of cache. All of these is installed at a company and working fine.
All the mirrors and Raid5 configs are held on the Perc so, from the O.O.S.S. view it has 3 disks: 240GB, 2TB and 6TB
First it was runing on Windows native and then we decided to upgrade the machine with the second processor, more RAM and the better Perc Card for this machine. And doing the upgrade we felt that will be better for the future to virtualize the Windows 2012 server that was running native on the machine.
So we installed Proxmox and a VM with the Windows 2012 Server plus a storage space for the Windows 2012 Server information (databases, documentation, etc.)
Everything right till now that they want to setup a couple of Windows Server VMs more. We're thinking about also upgrade all the S.S.O.O. to Windows 2022 Server.
I wonder if someone could advice me with the better config for this scenario, three Windows 2022 VMs and one storage unit that must be accesed from all three Windows VMs. I know that I can make one VM to access the storage unit and the other VMs will access through shares in the first VM (the way it's configured right now is LVM and I know that can't be shared). This setup will work but it'll be a bottleneck so I wonder if it could be done other way. I read that CephFS has the ability to be shared but I don't know anything about this and about realiability and perfomance and, what's more, if this can be done or has sense this way.
And, also, I'll upgrade to Proxmox 7 due to all these changes, upgrade or new install?
So, please, if someone could iluminate me will be great!