NetApp & ProxMox VE

Hi @daus2936 , your question was:
daus2936 said:
i need some recommended setting for multipath.conf, i mean is it fine if i just use the default settings?
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The title of the documentation page provided by @alexskysilk is:

Set up the multipath.conf file in E-Series - Linux (iSCSI)​

It is very succinct and states:
No changes to /etc/multipath.conf are required.

It appears to be addressing your question directly?


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Hello, Nik.
I'd like to ask about copy offload feature between Proxmox and NetApp, like VAAI. Do you have it?
When I clone VM from Template copy takes about a minute. VAAI takes 8-10 seconds. It's important in big environment and big deployment (>100 VMs at the same time).
 
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DatacenterDude said:
Hello ProxMox enthusiasts!

My name is Nick Howell, and I am the Global Field CTO at NetApp. I've spent the last 6 years helping get our cloud storage offerings online, but from 2006-2011 I was a datacenter admin, and then joined NetApp in 2011 to help lead their virtualization efforts around VMware, KVM/RHEV, Hyper-V, and Xen. We wrote "best practices" configuration documentation for all of them and presented those solutions around the world.

With the recent news of Broadcom's pricing model changes I'm sure you're all mostly aware of, there has been a lot of buzz inside the walls of NetApp. Our stance is: we are Switzerland. We work with all hypervisors, young and old, and provide some of the best enterprise and SMB unified storage out there. And I am re-visiting my old virtualization haunt to reinvigorate NetApp's position as the best storage for virt.

One of the names that has come up constantly for the last 9 months? ProxMox.

Unfortunately, we do not have a lot of experience with it, as traditionally there has not been a huge demand for it within the Enterprise sector. Every hypervisor has it's nuances, and I know ProxMox is no different. As a homelabber, I have dabbled, and plan on making some YouTube content connecting it to NetApp storage and beginning the process of developing some best practices for configuring it for best performance, stability, and resilience.

I'm here to humbly ask... How can I help? AMA. What would you like to see NetApp deliver for you to up-level your storage capabilities?

As an example, one of our partners in Germany, Credativ, recently configured our lightning-fast NVMe storage with ProxMox and wrote up a guided tour. I want to do something similar for FC, NFS, and iSCSI, and just general configuration best practices for working with ONTAP, our operating system.
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Any plans to support Proxmox with ONTAP Select and its Deploy utility?
 
Falk R. said:
Hello Nick,

I've always hated the NetApp sales in Germany, who present NetApp as the optimal block storage for VMware.
I always perceived NetApp as the best filer and the Ontap products probably still are. VMware's strong focus on block storage has probably formed the opinions that the previous speaker shares.

I currently see the NetApp storages as the best option for a simple migration from VMware to Proxmox, as NFS is the only open file system supported by VMware.

If you want to create a real added value as customers can easily switch from VMware to Proxmox with minimal downtime, then you could possibly write a plugin that converts the VMware VM configuration into a Proxmox VM, similar to the ESXi importer, but unlike the importer, the VMware VMDK can be used natively in the Proxmox VM. This means that you would always have a migration time of one shutdown and start of the VM.
This would make it possible to automate the procedure I have been using for years and thus migrate large installations more easily. The procedure is described here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE#Attach_Disk_&_Move_Disk_(minimal_downtime)

Best regards,
Falk Rösing
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My company on CONUS would be interested in this! Bethesda MD.. just saying.... :)
 
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