On 17.04.2024 09:56, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote:
What sort of shortcomings do you see for, say, Proxmox? I would say
that by using Open vSwitch & Free Range Routing (with EVPN), one can
get pretty close to the VMware NSX. And with enabling Ceph on
Proxmox, one can get the VSan-like functional distributed/block
storage. Then throw Ansible at it for automation.
Proxmox does not support the current architecture I have at work:
clusters of hosts served by a central storage system connected to the
hosts by FC SAN. I run few huge volumes on the storage that are shared
among the cluster hosts. As I have seen this architecture in many
companies I think I can the lack of support for it a shortcoming.
It might be an old fashioned architecture, but it served me well for
many years. I know I could work around that by presenting individual
volumes to each host and then put Ceph on it to get something like
vSAN. But that would be a) a ton of work and b) a mixture of
architecture that increases complexity.
Unfortunately we just bought new hosts and a storage system tailored
to that architecture just a few weeks before the mess with VMware
became public. So I'm stuck with the architecture for the next couple
of years.
So you are looking for someone to add support for that architecture to
Proxmox, maybe in a consortium with other interested parties ?
[ I am *not* bidding, nor interested in joining the consortium. ]
Not really. Time is of the essence here. If we must replace VMware it
must happen within the next four months for various reasons. I doubt
that it is possible to add the support and have it stable in this short
time. And in about four years when the next hardware replacement is due
I will have to rethink the whole architecture anyway before buying new
systems.
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