Reconsidering ProxMox

@DustinB3403 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@black3dynamite What if you have massive containers though?

Who has that? What's a use case for massive containers?

We do, for example. Not often, but when we need storage, containers are still better than a full VM if you don't need the extra overhead.

warren.stanley

After adjusting the updates to the pve-no-subscription repo and updating (full-upgrade), I had an issue where no templates for Containers were available on the host, to "Download" (under pve -> local (pve) -> "Content" -> "Templates").

Apparently the list of available templates is updated daily through the "pve-daily-update timer".

I triggered and update manually (cause i'm impatient) via:

root@pve:~# pveam update

...you can then check the list via:

root@pve:~# pveam available

And then I had templates to use under pve -> local (pve) -> "Content" -> "Templates".

Just spinning up a Debian 10 CT and VM now.

mroth911

PROXMOX with LIZARD FS? ANYONE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED IT.

stacksofplates

@mroth911 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

PROXMOX with LIZARD FS? ANYONE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED IT.

I have not (but haven't tried). It doesn't appear to be a supported thing from ProxMox. They don't reference it anywhere, only LizardFS does. It's all CLI driven it looks like. Doesn't look like you get any GUI control like with Ceph.

LizardFS mentions in their documentation that they run the chunk server on the ProxMox nodes in functional testing, developemnt, and "some private setups" using LXC containers as the chunk server. So it doesn't sound like it's a recommended thing to do. I'm not sure in the other setup whether they have the chunk servers as completely separate physical machines or if it's a VM with QoS for the disks or something else. Not much out there on it.

scottalanmiller

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

CloudKnight

I'm quite happy with it as well, I've deployed a couple of production servers using proxmox and all good so far as well

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

Are you deploying multi-node setups or just single nodes?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

Are you deploying multi-node setups or just single nodes?

Single node. It's a rare customer that would need more than one node.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@coliver said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

Are you deploying multi-node setups or just single nodes?

Single node. It's a rare customer that would need more than one node.

Got it.

travisdh1

@black3dynamite said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

To get rid of the no subscription message pop up

https://johnscs.com/remove-proxmox51-subscription-notice/
sed -i.bak "s/data.status !== 'Active'/false/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service
Clear your browser cache.

Just did this today, still working. TYVM

black3dynamite

@travisdh1 said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@black3dynamite said in Reconsidering ProxMox:
To get rid of the no subscription message pop up

https://johnscs.com/remove-proxmox51-subscription-notice/
sed -i.bak "s/data.status !== 'Active'/false/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service
Clear your browser cache.
Just did this today, still working. TYVM

This will make the changes after an update/upgrade.
https://github.com/foundObjects/pve-nag-buster

biggen

@scottalanmiller What’s your storage configuration like?

I’ve been playing with it on ZFS Raid 1 mirror. Proxmox OS and VMs all on same mirror. Performance is “OK”. Not as good as MD with same setup though.

Wonder if it’s better to create separate Raid 1 ZFS pools. One for the Proxmox OS and one for the VMs.

VoIP_n00b

@biggen said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller What’s your storage configuration like?

I’ve been playing with it on ZFS Raid 1 mirror. Proxmox OS and VMs all on same mirror. Performance is “OK”. Not as good as MD with same setup though.

Wonder if it’s better to create separate Raid 1 ZFS pools. One for the Proxmox OS and one for the VMs.

Did you configure ZFS correctly? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux#_limit_zfs_memory_usage What drives are you using?

biggen

@VoIP_n00b Its a lab for testing so no Enterprise drives. Just a pair of Samsung 970 Pros.

Box only has 32GB of RAM so that would mean that ZFS on Proxmox would be using at most 16GB of RAM for the ARC by default. Seems like ZFS needs a ton of RAM.