So one of my servers has a limitation of only 2 SATA ports (it's a stripped down Supermicro mobo). I may end up buying 2 more of these servers as well.
What is the optimum way to setup Proxmox for:
* Only 2 SSDs, or maybe a single SSD and an HDD
* Storage and OS for Proxmox
* Possibly HA (w/Ceph), or at least the ability to move things around
I would prefer to use mdadm and setup a raid0 or raid1, with two partitions. I'm thinking to do that, I would install Ubuntu and Proxmox ontop.
I would prefer to use a large HDD if at all possible for storage, and a tiny SSD for boot. Another possibility is to dedicate the SSD as an LVM caching disk, and boot from the HDD as well as serving storage from it (requiring an Ubuntu-first install, partitioning, and then Proxmox install - I'm guessing). Disk speed is not critical for these apps.
Is there a way to do these things from the Proxmox installation ISO? I didn't see it when testing in Virtualbox. I would prefer minimizing the overall footprint of the host OS.
What is the optimum way to setup Proxmox for:
* Only 2 SSDs, or maybe a single SSD and an HDD
* Storage and OS for Proxmox
* Possibly HA (w/Ceph), or at least the ability to move things around
I would prefer to use mdadm and setup a raid0 or raid1, with two partitions. I'm thinking to do that, I would install Ubuntu and Proxmox ontop.
I would prefer to use a large HDD if at all possible for storage, and a tiny SSD for boot. Another possibility is to dedicate the SSD as an LVM caching disk, and boot from the HDD as well as serving storage from it (requiring an Ubuntu-first install, partitioning, and then Proxmox install - I'm guessing). Disk speed is not critical for these apps.
Is there a way to do these things from the Proxmox installation ISO? I didn't see it when testing in Virtualbox. I would prefer minimizing the overall footprint of the host OS.
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