[PVE-User] scenario

[Adam Thompson]

On 2015-01-19 12:37 PM, XX0001XX YY0001YY wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Someone can tell me if my scenario is ok:
>
> Two servers :
>
> - A Proxmox server RAID5
> - A storage server FreeNas RAID5.
>
> On the Proxmox server I configure an NFS share to FreeNas (FreeNas sharing a ZFS volume, zvol)
> both servers communicate 10Gbps .
>
> on Proxmox, there will most 30 VM .
>
> It's good ?

It will work.
Exporting iSCSI would be better.
Not using harware RAID on FreeNAS, and using software RAID Z, Z2 or Z3 
would be even better.
Why do you need RAID5 on the Proxmox server if the VMs are stored on a 
separate system?  If it is your only Proxmox system (i.e. not a cluster) 
then RAID is useful, but otherwise not really necessary.

Unless you're running OpenVZ containers, in which case forget everything 
I've said here, except that LVM-over-iSCSI might still be better/faster 
than NFS... not 100% certain, I don't use containers.

If the storage server is dedicated to Proxmox, then iSCSI allocation 
isn't an issue - just allocate 100% of your disk space to the iSCSI 
volume(s).

-- 
-Adam Thompson
  athompso at athompso.net