[SOLVED] Why in doc is required a "dedicated nic" ?

[Pigi_102]

I was looking through documentation, and I've noticed that in the system requirements is requested a "dedicated nic".
I have some PDM installed as LXC, for little pve cluster, and if I was in need to control a big environment I could have choose for a VM or even a single machine, and obviously a nic is needed, but... dedicated ?
Thanks for every hint.


Pigi_102

 

[Johannes S]

I was looking through documentation, and I've noticed that in the system requirements is requested a "dedicated nic".

Where did you read that? https://pdm.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#system-requirements doesn't have this.
It mentiones a nic as minimum requirement since you will obviouvsly need one for a bare-metal non-virtualized install. The redundancy-recommendation is for corporate environments where you don't want to loose access if one network links breaks down

 

[Pigi_102]

In Proxmox datasheet ( I should have been more specific )


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Pigi_102

 

[cwt]

It’s simply the requirement of a network card/interface… Either a real one in bare-metal setups or virtual in a VM/LXC. Obvious that you need it, lol.

 

[dcsapak]

it's just a general requirement that the pdm needs network access, otherwise it can't do anything. I'd not read too much into the 'dedicated' wording here. Of course it depends on the actual setup what kind of nic is needed. e.g. with many remotes the bandwidth requirements increase

 

[Pigi_102]

Thanks a lot !

Pigi_102