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Mastering Proxmox

You're reading from   Mastering Proxmox Master Proxmox VE to effectively implement server virtualization technology within your network

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980826
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wasim Ahmed Wasim Ahmed
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Dive into the Virtual World with Proxmox FREE CHAPTER 2. Proxmox Under the Hood 3. Shared Storages with Proxmox 4. A Virtual Machine for a Virtual World 5. Network of Virtual Networks 6. Proxmox HA – Zero Downtime 7. High Availability Storage for High Availability Cluster 8. Proxmox Production Level Setup 9. Proxmox Troubleshooting 10. Putting It All Together Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned to install a Ceph cluster from the ground up and connected it to our Proxmox cluster. Treat this chapter as an introduction to Ceph. There is a lot more to Ceph than what has been covered here. Read the Ceph official documentation to learn about Ceph in greater detail.

Ceph is an excellent choice for a shared storage system for Proxmox due to its stability, performance, and significant lower cost. No matter the workload, a Ceph cluster can expand to meet the demand. Whether it is a single-tier or multitier storage environment, Ceph can handle them with ease. With Proxmox Version 3.2, managing Ceph just got better.

In the next chapter, we are going to get a glimpse of an enterprise-sized virtual environment, hardware requirements, and what keeps a cluster going month after month without downtime.

Exercise:

Consider a Ceph cluster has five nodes, 120 OSDs, three replicas, and four pools. Based on this information, we need to find the following values:

  • What...

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