Proxmox Hyperconverged Infrastructure - Storage Hardware

[KyleS]

Hello!
We are currently intending to migrate from vSphere to Proxmox, but still ensure that our infrastructure remains hyper converged. Reading over Proxmox VE documentation and forum posts, I can see that Ceph is the 'go-to' software solution for hyper-convergence, however, we just wanted to ascertain what hardware solutions people are using for their storage?

We currently use a SAN integrated with vSphere over FC SCSI which is approaching its best-before date, and whatever solution we move to, we are wanting to compromise as little as possible compared to our current set up.

What hardware/solution are people using for storage in their hyper converged set ups for Proxmox? What do you deem to be the 'golden standard'?

Thanks!

 

[guruevi]

Currently the gold standard I would say is Ceph with datacenter NVMe SSD (Kioxia etc) and redundant 100G backend.

Ceph can be configured as 3-way mirror which is best for most performance needs. If you have large drives attached to VMs, you can do 3n+2k (or larger n) to save money, but storage is relatively cheap these days.

Not too expensive, plenty of headroom for most clusters. I would say 5 nodes is a minimum, just for redundancy, that way you can have 2 fail.

Then in another datacenter you should do Proxmox Backup Server.