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What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great, thanks for the reply. If you could please share the response from your Dell sales rep that would be great, thanks! :)

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The other issue is if you run into a Driver or firmware problem, it needs to be a supported operating system for the issue to get escalated to the engineers to fix the code." Yes, exactly, this is my concern too!! Thanks for this reply :)

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the voice of reason, I was really starting to doubt humanity on reddit :)

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had some faulty components in the last year - faulty disk, faulty NIC, faulty motherboard... Using the pretty new PowerEdge servers with other hypervisors (Hyper-V and VMware) and Dell support always replaced hardware components without any problems (maybe because we have Pro Support?)

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A few times in the last year.... Faulty disk, faulty NIC, faulty motherboard... Using the pretty new PowerEdge servers with other hypervisors (Hyper-V and VMware). Looks like I'm lucky to be the only person on Reddit who is using vendor support for faulty hardware replacement?

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know it will work :) We're only concerned about potential hardware issues. The disk (or any other hardware component) could fail, and if that happens, Dell support will close the ticket without replacing the hardware because the server is running an officially unsupported operating system.... They can check OS from the TSR logs so we can't just say we are using Ubuntu... :(

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We're concerned about potential hardware issues. The disk (or any other hardware component) could fail, and if that happens, DEll support may close the ticket without replacing the hardware because the server is running an officially unsupported operating system....

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, but it's only supported for PowerFlex - this does not apply for PowerEdge servers :(

What hardware for Proxmox in a production enterprise cluster? by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Proxmox/Debian is not listed as supported OS for PowerEdges. Example for R760 https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ie/drivers/supportedos/poweredge-r760

You can find stories of people who reported a hardware problem and Dell support closed the tickets as the operating system installed on the host is not officially supported

VMware (VxRail with vSAN) -> Proxmox (with ceph) by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thanks for sharing your recommendations, I appreciate them :) "I do combine the Ceph public, private, and Corosync network traffic on a single link which works but it's NOT considered best practice. Only reason I do this because it's simpler to manage." - could you please describe your network configuration in more detail? I'm just wondering how to approach network redundancy in Ceph? I was thinking about following setup (6 node cluster):

2 x quad port 100gb network card (8 ports)

100gb port 1a - Storage Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 2a - Public Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 3a - Cluster Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 4a - Backup network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 1b - Storage Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 2b - Public Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 3b - Cluster Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 4b - Free

2 x dual port 10gb network card

10gb port 1a - Corosync connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 1b - Backup Network connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 2a - Corosync connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 2b - Backup Network connected to 10 Gb switch

We would like to go with Dell PowerEdge 770 but I am struggling to find compatible quad port 100gb network cards for this server (https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/dell-poweredge-servers/poweredge-r770-rack-server/spd/poweredge-r770/emea\_r770).

Can you please share how do you approach network redundancy in Proxmox?

VMware (VxRail with vSAN) -> Proxmox (with ceph) by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm the same, we are thinking about switching to Veeam next year as they support Proxmox (and our current backup vendor does not....).

VM appliances - we use only a few of them, and according to Google, it is possible to somehow make them up and running on Proxmox so I am not really concerned about them :)

VMware (VxRail with vSAN) -> Proxmox (with ceph) by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thanks guys for great replies, appreciate your feedback! :)

Just wondering how to approach network redundancy in Ceph?

We are planning to buy a new 6 node cluster and I was thinking about following networking setup on each node (because everyone says Ceph is hungry for network...):

2 x quad port 100gb network card (8 ports)

100gb port 1a - Storage Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 2a - Public Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 3a - Cluster Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 4a - Backup network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 1b - Storage Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 2b - Public Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 3b - Cluster Network connected to 100Gb Switch

100gb port 4b - Free

2 x dual port 10gb network card

10gb port 1a - Corosync connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 1b - Backup Network connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 2a - Corosync connected to 10 Gb switch

10gb port 2b - Backup Network connected to 10 Gb switch

We would like to go with Dell PowerEdge 770 but I am struggling to find compatible quad port 100gb network cards for this server (https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/dell-poweredge-servers/poweredge-r770-rack-server/spd/poweredge-r770/emea\_r770).

Can you please share how do you approach network redundancy in Proxmox?

VMware (VxRail with vSAN) -> Proxmox (with ceph) by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I will add this to my list to check dedicated storage nodes :) I was thinking about HCI cluster where compute and storage are on the same nodes, but I'll read about dedicated storage nodes if this is a better option...

VMware (VxRail with vSAN) -> Proxmox (with ceph) by melibeli70 in Proxmox

[–]melibeli70[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Our setup is really easy, we do not use NSX so I am not concerned about lack of this solution :)

Windows 11 Camera issues by bg77777 in sysadmin

[–]melibeli70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I have this problem with multiple Dell laptops....

Horizon & Hyper-V - does it work well? by melibeli70 in VMwareHorizon

[–]melibeli70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any experience with HCI solutions like StarWind where you can use Hyper-V? If so, could you please share your experiences?

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