Using PROXMOX node as stand-alone NFS shared storage

[Hubguru]

Hey Folks,

In my PROXMOX Clusters, I use bare metal headless debian servers as
shared storage nodes using NFS. This works as expected of course. I
wanted to get a GUI based systems for the NFS Storage nodes, but do
not want to use a FreeNAS type of OS. What are your thoughts on
deploying a PROXMOX node in a cluster just using it to export local
storage as shared with the other cluster nodes. Basically what I'm
trying to accomplish is capture the performance metrics of the storage
nodes with a common use GUI, Disk IO, CPU Performance, Network Stats
and such. What is the storage export used by PROXMOX when you share
local storage to other nodes in a cluster?

Thanks for any feedback.

JR

 

[Dunuin]

Proxmox on its own won't share any folders as it got no NAS functionalities. You will have to do that on your own using the CLI like with any minimal Debian.

 

[Hubguru]

So in a Cluster when you add local disk storage, there is a selection to make it shared within the Cluster, what is this mechanism if not using NFS? Thanks.

 

[Dunuin]

So in a Cluster when you add local disk storage, there is a selection to make it shared within the Cluster, what is this mechanism if not using NFS? Thanks.

You misunderstand that "shared" checkbox. It won't turn your local storage into a shared storage. You will have to provide a shared storage yourself and with that checkbox you just tell PVE if that directory storage is on a local or a shared storage, so PVE knows how to handle it.

 

[Hubguru]

You misunderstand that "shared" checkbox. It won't turn your local storage into a shared storage. You will have to provide a shared storage yourself and with that checkbox you just tell PVE if that directory storage is on a local or a shared storage, so PVE knows how to handle it.

I see, thanks for clarifying, appreciate it.

 

[Neobin]

Proxmox on its own won't share any folders as it got no NAS functionalities.

I have a recurring dream (no, not what you are thinking ): "There exists a fullblown type-1 hypervisor like PVE and it has also all the nice bells and whistles (or at least all the good basics to begin with) integrated (officially and into the GUI, of course) one wants for a NAS." Imagine how insane this would be!

And no, I do not mean the other way around, that already exists in reality...

 

[Tmanok]

I have a recurring dream (no, not what you are thinking ): "There exists a fullblown type-1 hypervisor like PVE and it has also all the nice bells and whistles (or at least all the good basics to begin with) integrated (officially and into the GUI, of course) one wants for a NAS." Imagine how insane this would be!

And no, I do not mean the other way around, that already exists in reality...

I mean... PVE will host a CEPH cluster soooo... My dream is that they integrate OCFS2 so that when each node connects to an ISCSI volume you can add OCFS2 in the GUI to make it a shared volume with multipathing and LVM-Thin. Or any file or block system on top even except ZFS of course...