Hi Jon, I did setup successfully both SmartOS and SDC+Manta on OVH. SmartOS is very easy to install, it's even supported by OVH in beta but last time I checked they were still providing an old image. For SmartOS only I went through an iPXE installation from a recent image I uploaded on the OVH Object Storage. For SDC I had to do it via a USB key as I did not manage to make the pretty large root partition available through iPXE. You can order a USB key for any OVH server directly from the manager interface.
It is true that the network layout provided by OVH is not strictly compatible with the recommandations for SDC. In my case, I did it with 5 nodes in a single vrack: 1 SmartOS server, 1 SDC headnode and 3 SDC compute nodes. The 4 SDC nodes only make use of the OVH vrack interface, the Internet interface being left un-mounted. On the vrack, I have 4 vlans: admin (vlan 0), external, manta and mantanat. On the pure SmartOS server, I setup two zones: one firewall zone and one worker zone. The firewall zone is providing NAT for the external and mantanat vlans, thanks to an IP block being routed to the vrack. What is not so clean here is that the vlan 0 on the vrack is mixing traffic for both the admin SDC network and the Internet. AFAIK there is no other way because the admin network has to use vlan 0 and OVH does not give you the opportunity (yet) to route IP blocks on a vlan id. It should change sooner or later as they have already announced their plan to route IP blocks to vlans on the public network interface, instead of the vrack. I am using cheap EG64 servers for this proof-of-concept. With 64GB per node I had to resize most of the SDC & Manta zones to not over allocate memory. I would advise to go for much more RAM per server if you plan to build a real cluster. 4 nodes is also the bare minimum. With SDC+Manta you end up running dozens of zones only for the cluster orchestration. Emmanuel On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Jon Dison <[email protected]> wrote: > Would anyone care to share their experience running at a dedicated hosting > provider? > > I currently virtualize a lot of web servers on Proxmox hosted at OVH and > would love to switch over to SmartOS, but OVH's network infrastructure is > fairly cookie-cutter and they don't really allow you to get the sort of > network plumbing setup that SmartOS requires, especially SDC. > > Has anyone managed to successfully setup SmartOS at OVH? > Has anyone setup SmartOS and/or SDC somewhere else and have had a positive > experience? > > The thing I like about OVH is their prices. I suppose you get what you > pay for. > But the same servers are twice as much with other providers and I haven't > gotten a guarantee from them that they can setup the networking the way > that I want either. > > Thanks in advance, > Jon > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27858491-3996674b> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
