DaveDec 3, 2022
Finally getting back around to setting up Proxmox to take over for the heavy-handed (and slightly expensive) vSphere VM/container hosting on my NUC cluster.
Show threadDaveDec 4, 2022

TIL that while vSphere/ESXi is fine running the OS off of a thumb drive, Proxmox very much isn't.

Made a "quick" trip to Microcenter to pick up some cheap NVMe drives and external enclosures (internal M.2 and SATA slots are being used for the Ceph cluster).

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This Is How We Do
Dec 4, 2022 at 7:35pmWeb
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Mostly a note to my future self, but this is the guide I followed for getting Ceph going with tiering (replacing HDD with SSD and SSD with NVMe). Instructions are a bit outdated for Proxmox but work for the most part.
https://tacoisland.net/2019/01/06/hyperconverged-hybrid-storage-on-the-cheap-with-proxmox-and-ceph/
Hyperconverged hybrid storage on the cheap with Proxmox and Ceph – Taco Island

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Who will win: Three little ole firewall ports or one human person?

(turns out NFS doesn't work on QNAP if you don't open 30000-30002, oops)