Hi,
I work at a place that makes use of VMWare on HPE and DELL hardware. I'm pushing for adoption of Proxmox and with the recent VMWare changes ($$), the company is open to suggestions.
Many of the sysadmins here use Proxmox at home and welcomed the idea, however to convince corporate I need to show a solid overall solution, starting with the hardware.
Corporate is willing to allocate a budget to purchase a test server, and I'm thinking of this Supermicro GrandTwin:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/grandtwin/2u/as -2116gt-hntf
Its a 2U chassis with 4 individual nodes, each with 4 x 2.5" bays. Would spec it with:
- AMD Turin (9005)
- 1TB RAM for each node (4TB for whole chassis)
- 4 x 7.68TB NVMe per node.
- 25G or 100G NICs (multiple ports per NIC to dedicate specific ports for Ceph).
I plan to put Proxmox on this and setup Ceph (open to suggestions, but I need to demonstrate live-VM migrations between the 4 nodes so any filesystem needs to support that).
We have SANs, but I learned snapshots are not supported with iSCSI. So for now this system will be independent (both compute and storage on the same hardware, hyperconverged sort of setup).
I'm posting this to get feedback from the community, if there are other hardware platforms that fit the bill I'd gladly take suggestions, I'm eyeing supermicro because they are generally standards-based and that goes well with the open source nature of Proxmox.
TIA
I work at a place that makes use of VMWare on HPE and DELL hardware. I'm pushing for adoption of Proxmox and with the recent VMWare changes ($$), the company is open to suggestions.
Many of the sysadmins here use Proxmox at home and welcomed the idea, however to convince corporate I need to show a solid overall solution, starting with the hardware.
Corporate is willing to allocate a budget to purchase a test server, and I'm thinking of this Supermicro GrandTwin:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/grandtwin/2u/as -2116gt-hntf
Its a 2U chassis with 4 individual nodes, each with 4 x 2.5" bays. Would spec it with:
- AMD Turin (9005)
- 1TB RAM for each node (4TB for whole chassis)
- 4 x 7.68TB NVMe per node.
- 25G or 100G NICs (multiple ports per NIC to dedicate specific ports for Ceph).
I plan to put Proxmox on this and setup Ceph (open to suggestions, but I need to demonstrate live-VM migrations between the 4 nodes so any filesystem needs to support that).
We have SANs, but I learned snapshots are not supported with iSCSI. So for now this system will be independent (both compute and storage on the same hardware, hyperconverged sort of setup).
I'm posting this to get feedback from the community, if there are other hardware platforms that fit the bill I'd gladly take suggestions, I'm eyeing supermicro because they are generally standards-based and that goes well with the open source nature of Proxmox.
TIA
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