My though was to use hardware raid, and just set that up for the 2 hdds, then boot off an ssd with Debian (very familiar, and use it for current server which has 30+ docker containers. Basically I like and am good at docker so would like to stick to Debian+docker. But if hardware raid isn’t the best option for HDDs now a days, I’ll learn the better thing)
Which drives? Renewed or refurb are half the cost, so should I buy extra used ones, and just be ready to swap when the fail?
I think this is the way and not an overkill at all!
Its super easy to swarm ProxMox, and you make your inevitable admin job easier. Not to mention backups, first testing & setting up a VM on your server before copying it to their, etc.
You need at minimum three ceph nodes but actually four if you want it to work better. But ceph isn’t ideally designed in mind with clusters that small. 7 nodes would be more reasonable.
While clustering proxmox using ceph is cool as fuck it’s not easy or cheap to accomplish at home.
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I think this is the way and not an overkill at all!
Its super easy to swarm ProxMox, and you make your inevitable admin job easier. Not to mention backups, first testing & setting up a VM on your server before copying it to their, etc.
You need at minimum three ceph nodes but actually four if you want it to work better. But ceph isn’t ideally designed in mind with clusters that small. 7 nodes would be more reasonable.
While clustering proxmox using ceph is cool as fuck it’s not easy or cheap to accomplish at home.
No, I didn’t mean with ceph. No quorum needed either. Just add to the group.
Ah, so you mean completely independent hosts.
Yes, it’s still easier to manage, transfer stuff, Proxmox Backup server integrates nicely, etc.