I'm not a CEPH exert, but that is my understanding of it at a
high level.
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I would assume CEPH takes the physical disks from each host and
combines them into one logical storage for use by the entire cluster?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:39 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net
<mailto:af...@ics-il.net>> wrote:
CEPH kind of fills the void where you don't need a dedicated,
shared storage box.
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If you're going to have multiple physical VM hosts then fast
shared storage is very helpful. When you want to reboot a
physical machine for OS upgrade and the VM's are on shared
storage then you can migrate them off that box in a few
seconds. Do your maintenance, reboot, migrate VM's back.
No downtime.
On 9/27/2020 11:43 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
Thanks guys. Proxmox didn't even come up in my searches.
I'll look into it. If anyone really knows the space and
wouldn't mind spending 15 minutes discussing what we need
I would appreciate it.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 10:21 AM Bill Prince
<part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote:
VMs are a great way to go depending on the job(s) you
need to do. As it happens a lot of jobs (e.g. DNS)
are not particularly compute intensive, so it's a
great way to stretch resources. We find we can run 3
or 4 virtual machines on each physical machine.
We used VMware from the get-go, but did not get many
of the paid-for bells and whistles. VMware can become
pretty expensive, where other solutions (e.g.
Proxmox) has an advantage because of open source.
The other consideration is containers, which can be
thought of as VM-lite. Containers provide almost all
of the advantages of VMs with a significantly lighter
load on the hardware. As a result, you can load up
more applications on less hardware. The leading
contender in the container space is Kubernetes and
it's also open source.
Pick your poison with someone you know who can go
over your requirements.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 9/27/2020 7:27 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
I have decided I needed to get on the VM train. I
know, I am only 15 years behind. Honestly, till
now I haven't had a compelling reason.
I want something that will at least do some
monitoring of VM's, backups, snapshots, etc.
Managed upgrading would be great but not as big a
priority for me (at least I don't think so).
Since I don't know what I don't know, I am asking
the experienced crowd.
It seems the two real choices are VMWare and Zen.
Are there others? Commercial support seems nice,
is it worth paying for? What I will run is
important for sure.
I spent a few hours last night and I more
confused now than when I started.
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