Can i try ProxMox on this hardware?

[kingnubian]

I have stumbled on ProxMox and am very excited to give it a try for testing & proof of concept.

I have some "Off the shelf" components here and was wondering if there may be any problems getting ProxMox 1.1 up & going.

I have two Motherboards to choose from, one based on the AMD 780G chipset (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H) & the other an Nvidia GF8200 chipset.

For a cpu I have an AMD X2 7750. In addition for starters I have 4gig of DDR2 upgradable to 8gig.

I also have 2x1Tb Samsung Spinpoint F1's.

I know this isn't exactly "Big Iron" hardware but for testing at home for now will I have any issues hardware compatability wise??

 

[ierk]

I've simmilar HW: a Athlon X 2 4450e, an ASUS MATX (w/780G chipset), 4GB DDR 667 ECC, a WD raptor.

Proxmox works just fine.

 

[kingnubian]

I've simmilar HW: a Athlon X 2 4450e, an ASUS MATX (w/780G chipset), 4GB DDR 667 ECC, a WD raptor.

Proxmox works just fine.

Thanks for the reply. Can you give me an idea of what you are doing with the system? How is it's performance? I am concerned that a BE-2400 may not be enough even for running 2 or 3 vm's. (CentOS 5.2, SME server 8 & Windows server 2003)

I have now pretty much finalized my ProxMox system after making some changes.

Asus M2=3A76-CM AMD 760G Motherboard
AMD X2 7750
4gig (2x2gig) G.Skill DDR2-8000 Ram
Samsung 1Tb F1 hard drive

 

[dcalvache]

i have a test enviroment with several machines running the same hardware, Asus pb, 4 gb ram, intel C2d e8400, and sata raid 0 with 2 WesternDigital (7200rpm), all it´s ok, but IO perfomance is very slow.

I have a cluster of seven host all of then running at least 4 Windows2003Std (KVM) or 8 Ves in each node(Openvz).

Finally im going to test another type of hard disk to improve the perfomance.

 

[kingnubian]

i have a test enviroment with several machines running the same hardware, Asus pb, 4 gb ram, intel C2d e8400, and sata raid 0 with 2 WesternDigital (7200rpm), all it´s ok, but IO perfomance is very slow.

I have a cluster of seven host all of then running at least 4 Windows2003Std (KVM) or 8 Ves in each node(Openvz).

Finally im going to test another type of hard disk to improve the perfomance.

This is exactly the kind of information I was after. Initially at least I will not be running that many vm's but it's good to know the experience people are having with "off the shelf" pc's.

Keep it coming.

 

[tom]

This is exactly the kind of information I was after. Initially at least I will not be running that many vm's but it's good to know the experience people are having with "off the shelf" pc's.

Keep it coming.

for good IO performance follow the system recommendations

 

[kingnubian]

Finally got the "test" system up & running and all I can say is WOW!
ProxMox is golden.

For a test system my AMD 7750 seems more than up to the task, but in reality I'm not running more than 4 vm's at a time (Have 4gigs of ram).

Presently have SME Server 8 beta, Clark Connect 5.2Beta, Windows Server & FreeNas running in Vm's without a hitch.

 

[Giovanni]

Check to see if your CPU support AMD-V the virtualization technology.

If it does not support it then you will only be able to run OpenVZ VE's.

 

[kingnubian]

Check to see if your CPU support AMD-V the virtualization technology.

If it does not support it then you will only be able to run OpenVZ VE's.

According to AMD all AM2 & Higher (AM2+ & AM3) X2, X3 & X4 cpu's support AMD-V.

With Intel, not only the cpu but also the motherboard bios has to have this support (VT-x) enabled, which is needed to use KVM. In the AMD world this is pretty much the defacto standard. Even my other ITX based machine, not for Proxmox though, with an AMD BE-2400 has full AMD-V support.