I have 5 node Ceph cluster run under Proxmox. I am moving VMs from an old PVE/Ceph clusters to a new one PVE/Ceph clusters. During this time my new 5 node Ceph cluster will not have all the drives installed. I will have only 8 SSDs, planning to put 2 per server which will cover 4 servers, the 5th server will not have any SSDs installed (this is just temporary for about 2 Weeks).
Questions:
1. Will the Ceph and or PVE have an issue with it ?
2. When adding storage to Proxmox would I add the ip addres of the 5th node or jsut the ip addresses of 4 nodes which hold the drives ?
Alternatively, I could not install the 5th server for now and run that on 4 servers then when I have all SSDs I remove move everything to local drives , remove the pool , add the 5th node and create a new storage pool which would evenly distribute all the drives.
Let me know what you think.
Thank you
Questions:
1. Will the Ceph and or PVE have an issue with it ?
2. When adding storage to Proxmox would I add the ip addres of the 5th node or jsut the ip addresses of 4 nodes which hold the drives ?
Alternatively, I could not install the 5th server for now and run that on 4 servers then when I have all SSDs I remove move everything to local drives , remove the pool , add the 5th node and create a new storage pool which would evenly distribute all the drives.
Let me know what you think.
Thank you