Proxmox with Ceph - Replication ?

The answer to your question is yes.

We used the excellent wiki article referenced above by Alwin to mirror disk images from our HQ cluster to our DR cluster located at a remote datacenter. Communication is via sd-wan and a 150m broadband internet circuit. We are currently mirroring 27 disk images totaling about 11T. What this provides us is very up to date, crash consistent disk images at the remote location. In a disaster situation, (Moon fell on HQ) these images can be promoted to primary and brought up in a fraction of the time needed to restore from a backup. This does not mean that this is a replacement for good backups!

In the screenshots below you can see an image in the syncing process, and images replaying from journal after the initial sync. Also below is a 25hr bandwidth graph. The first 8 hours you can seen that the entire allocated amount (currently capped at 80m) of bandwidth is being consumed because an image was doing it's initial sync. The next 5 hours was spent catching up and then back to what I consider normal replaying. Then about 08:30 I began syncing another image.

So to help put this in perspective, I began syncing a 4T(1.5 used) image on Saturday morning about 9:30a and it finished on Wed about 10p. All the while continuing to replay journals from 25 existing images. It joined the ranks of the replaying and I started syncing another image.

Hope this is useful.
Hi Kmgish,

What is the software of the screenshots?


Thanks,
 

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