[PVE-User] Interested in running Proxmox on a single (for now) colo node

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi Adam,

We have such an installation and Proxmox works fine, given the 
limitations of the underlying hardware (most notable are the disks).

For the firewall you can use a dedicated VM or also the native proxmox 
(hypervisor kernel) iptables. We use iptables on the hypervisor, managed 
by the Firewall Builder front-end, and are quite happy with it.

Hope this helps,
Eneko

On 06/11/13 00:34, Adam Hunt wrote:
> From my reading it would seem that Proxmox was designed for uses who 
> maintain a cluster of Proxmox instances.
>
> I'm interested in experimenting with Poroxmox using a single node for 
> experimentation. Specifically I'm interested in using it on a single 
> lowish end colo box: Ivy Bridge, Intel Xeon E3 1245v2, 4 cores, 8 
> threads running 3.4 GHz (including VT-x and VT-d), 32 GB of memory, 2 
> x 3 TB SATA drives (soft RAID only), gigabit Ethernet, and the 
> possibility of multiple IPs at a monthly cost.
>
> My primary question is that I don't need all my VMs or containers to 
> have private IPs, I assume port forwarding should work in the majority 
> of cases. My thought was to use one dedicated public IP for management 
> of the Proxmox instance and one or more IPs for various services, 
> off-site backup, web serving, VPN, DNS, VoIP, etc. Does this setup 
> sound tenable?
>
> One thing I'm a bit foggy on is where the firewall and forwarding is 
> managed. Are all the rules setup in the Proxmox host or do I route the 
> non-management IPs to a dedicated firewall VM (I use pfSense in 
> various places) and distribute IPs and forward ports them from their 
> (that seems a little convoluted).
>
> Thanks for your help. One day I do hope to expand my Proxmox install 
> to a cluster where I can get full use of its capabilities.
>
> --adam
>
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