Minimum Hard Drive Requirements for quorum server

[Mr.Embedded]

Hi All,

I have a goal of installing proxmox on a very small nettop system for use as a quorum server (proxmox/ceph) for an existing 2 node test cluster. I am currently targeting deployment on a 8GB SSD. While it is known that the installer will choke on deploying to a drive this small, I am wondering if anyone has experience installing Debian on a small drive and then installing the proxmox packages after? Will 8GB be enough or should I not even bother and go for a larger disk?

Thoughts?

 

[mir]

If the server is only supposed to contain proxmox and no VM's then 8GB is sufficient. I even think 4GB would suffice which leaves you some space for other stuff.

 

[Mr.Embedded]

Thanks. I'll give it a go and report back so others have something to follow.

 

[udo]

Hi All,

I have a goal of installing proxmox on a very small nettop system for use as a quorum server (proxmox/ceph) for an existing 2 node test cluster.

Hi,
if I understand you right, the server act as ceph mon-node?

ceph will give warnings if the available disk-space on mon-nodes are too small. With ceph I would use 16GB (for root) min.

Udo

 

[Mr.Embedded]

Yes that was the intention. However the hardware on the nettop is not stable and I have scrapped this project. I originally had intended to use an 8gb SSD that was lying around. Thanks for the advice Udo. If this gets picked up again, I'll spring for a larger SSD.