Need help to setup Proxmox Cloud

[proneti]

hello everyone...

I am new to these forums, so I am sorry if this is the wrong section to post my requirements. Mods please move this thread to appropriate forums.

Okay, I will try to explain my scenario and if someone could kindly guide me, I will be extremely grateful.

We have a datacenter in UK from where we lease our bare metal dedicated servers. We wish to create a cluster of Proxmox cloud with KVM hypervisor in this datacenter.

Limitations: They do not have SAN. Their servers have two eth ports. One for public and other for internal LAN.
Their internal LAN network has a cap of 1Gbps. That is the maximum uplink port as I could say.

Help needed :
Ok if I get bare metal dedicated servers, each server having it's own drives, how can I setup a Proxmox cloud with central storage?

I need help to understand network and storage infrastructure. Can someone please help me understand this?

Regards,

 

[itNGO]

Hi,
some questions.
- Are the servers local to each other?
- Possible to get more NICs added with at least 10GBe? (Thinking of MESH-Routing and CEPH for Storage, you need at least 3 Servers)

Maybe this is more a question for a Proxmox Consultant ...

 

[proneti]

Thank you so much for your reply.
Yes these servers will be local to each other and can be arranged in one rack.

This is the limitation of of NIC with 10GBe, and hence trying to find any other alternative.

Is there any link, I can consult any Proxmox consultant?

 

[bbgeek17]

https://www.proxmox.com/en/partners/solution

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[LnxBil]

This is the limitation of of NIC with 10GBe, and hence trying to find any other alternative.

Distributed shared storage with e.g. CEPH is not very fast if you use 1 GBE or only HDDs. So, what are the specs of the rest of your hardware?

 

[proneti]

Distributed shared storage with e.g. CEPH is not very fast if you use 1 GBE or only HDDs. So, what are the specs of the rest of your hardware?

Below are the nodes that we have avaialable :
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz
64GB RAM
2 x 2TB SSD
Public Ethernet : 1Gbps
LAN Ethernet : 1Gbps

These nodes can be interconnected with 1Gbps LAN

 

[itNGO]

You should go with ZFS Replication then. Ceph with 1GBbs is really slow....

 

[LnxBil]

Ceph with 1GBbs is really slow....

Yes, compared to the potential speed of the SSDs.

These nodes can be interconnected with 1Gbps LAN

What about going to 10 GBE?