Will be installing Proxmox soon.. wanna check some config options

[sgtfoo]

So I'll be using Proxmox 2.1 very soon to turn a newly built machine into my one and only Host hypervisor.

- 32GB RAM, 6-core CPU, 6x SATA6Gbps + 2x SATA3Gbps, 74GB Raptor OS drive, 7TB of drive space.
- add-on dual-port NIC, so 3 Gigabit NICS alltogether, for bonding (without a managed switch)
- I don't intend on doing any RAID as I use VMs within this box as a on-site backup at home and the offsite is elsewhere via transfer/deliver and internet.

So can anyone make any suggestions for optimal installation/setup/config?
- For VMs, I'll have 4-6 Windows installations (KVM) and 4-6 OpenVZ-based Linux and 1-3 KVM-based Linux

I'd like the motherboard's NIC to be "primary", or eth0 and the dual-NIC card to come afterwards.
I'd like the static IP set to ##.##.1.4
One of my VMs is a Fedora acting as DHCP and DNS... Is there a suggested method for this approach?
I'd like the DVDROM drive accessible to VMs.
The internal drives (6-8 of them) are all I have for storage and VMs -- any suggestions for config are greatly appreciated.

Is anything automatic on install? Should I preset anything?

Note: I WILL NOT be adding a second node.

 

[udo]

So I'll be using Proxmox 2.1 very soon to turn a newly built machine into my one and only Host hypervisor.

- 32GB RAM, 6-core CPU, 6x SATA6Gbps + 2x SATA3Gbps, 74GB Raptor OS drive, 7TB of drive space.
- add-on dual-port NIC, so 3 Gigabit NICS alltogether, for bonding (without a managed switch)
- I don't intend on doing any RAID as I use VMs within this box as a on-site backup at home and the offsite is elsewhere via transfer/deliver and internet.

So can anyone make any suggestions for optimal installation/setup/config?
- For VMs, I'll have 4-6 Windows installations (KVM) and 4-6 OpenVZ-based Linux and 1-3 KVM-based Linux

I'd like the motherboard's NIC to be "primary", or eth0 and the dual-NIC card to come afterwards.
I'd like the static IP set to ##.##.1.4
One of my VMs is a Fedora acting as DHCP and DNS... Is there a suggested method for this approach?
I'd like the DVDROM drive accessible to VMs.
The internal drives (6-8 of them) are all I have for storage and VMs -- any suggestions for config are greatly appreciated.

Is anything automatic on install? Should I preset anything?

Note: I WILL NOT be adding a second node.

Hi,
often the bottleneck on vitualization is the IO-Performance. I suggest an good raid-controller.
The kvm-VMs can you install on lvm-storage - best performance (less overhead). For the openvz you need an real filesystem, use here the place of the standard installation.

Nics can you choose like you want (but some drivers are better than others...).

Udo

 

[kotakomputer]

32GB RAM, 6-core CPU, 6x SATA6Gbps + 2x SATA3Gbps, 74GB Raptor OS drive, 7TB of drive space.

Some Controller will slow down to SATA2 if you mix SATA3 with SATA2. Make a test to make it sure

I'd like the motherboard's NIC to be "primary", or eth0 and the dual-NIC card to come afterwards.

In my experience, usually the PCI Card become eth0, you may take it off. After finish the installation then put the PCI Card.

One of my VMs is a Fedora acting as DHCP and DNS... Is there a suggested method for this approach?

Put DHCP inside VM is not a good idea, you may put the DHCP in to Router (the idea is put it outside VM) or other Server

The internal drives (6-8 of them) are all I have for storage and VMs -- any suggestions for config are greatly appreciated.

You may create a single LVM from several HDDs, but to make my live easy when face HDD failure I like to avoid single LVM. I like to mount each HDD as separate /mnt/sdx.

 

[sgtfoo]

- What's wrong with having a VM as the DHCP?

- For mounting drives seperately, would I just add them after install?

Anyone have other input?

 

[sgtfoo]

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any other input from anyone?

 

[xcooling]

If you want a storage server, give up on proxmox and rather go for something ZFS based. eg. http://www.freenas.org/

RaidZ (zfs raid5) will allow for an SSD used as a cache. this way you have reliability and performance.

 

[sgtfoo]

Thing is, I have 4-6 other servers that I wanna run off this box

 

[xcooling]

what are the specs of your drives?

 

[sgtfoo]

Several drives.. some are WD Blues, SG Barracudas, WD Greens.. (only differences is 7200RPM vs 5900 RPM)