INTEL Modular BLADE Server Support/ Experiences

[Petrus4]

As far as I know our Intel Modular Server should arrive soon in the test lab, means the intense testing will start soon, hopefully.

Thats's great news Tom!

In the mean time I can start testing on my server here. I know you can't answer all of my questions with certainty without thorough testing. Even so, could you give me some direction on how you would proceed with my configuration and answer some of my previous questions to the best of your knowledge and experience?

Thanks Tom.

 

[Petrus4]

Hi there,

I need some clarification on openVZ containers installed on the intel modular flex server. I read that storage is not supported as the location for these containers and that only KVM works on storage.

1. Would this mean that I would have to store all my openVZ containers locally on same LUN as my proxmox-VE installation for them to work?

2. If number 1 is the case what is the time line for openVZ being supported in the storage model?

 

[tom]

openvz uses local storage, more detailed: whatever you have mounted on /var/lib/vz

currently the openvz project does not have any plan to support multiple storages, so we cannot implement this on Proxmox VE now. but there are plans to have also containers with multiple storages later this year (after 2.0 release).

 

[udo]

Hi Tom,
read i right between the lines, that the container after pve2.0 with multible storage are not openvz-container?

Udo

 

[dietmar]

read i right between the lines, that the container after pve2.0 with multible storage are not openvz-container?

We still hope that the OpenVZ team will support newer kernels - we will see. But yes, LXC is an option.

 

[Petrus4]

We still hope that the OpenVZ team will support newer kernels - we will see. But yes, LXC is an option.

Hi Dietmar, So as I understand it LXC may replace OpenVZ in ProxMox-VE ?

 

[tom]

lxc is an option, but new OpenVZ is also an option. As both solutions aren´t available in the moment (stable and feature complete) there is nothing to decide. OpenVZ is the stable container solution on Proxmox VE.