[PVE-User] Shared storage recommendations

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hi,

On 2/25/19 6:22 PM, Frederic Van Espen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're designing a new datacenter network where we will run proxmox nodes on
> about 30 servers. Of course, shared storage is a part of the design.
> 
> What kind of shared storage would anyone recommend based on their
> experience and what kind of network equipment would be essential in that
> design? Let's assume for a bit that budget is not constrained too much. We
> should be able to afford a vendor specific iSCSI device, or be able to
> implement an open source solution like Ceph.
> 
> Concerning storage space and IOPS requirements, we're very modest in the
> current setup (about 13TB storage space used, very modest IOPS, about 6500
> write IOPS and 4200 read IOPS currently distributed in the whole network
> according to the prometheus monitoring).
> 
> Key in the whole setup is day to day maintainability and scalability.

I'd use ceph then. Scalability is something ceph is just made for, and
maintainability is also really not to bad, IMO. You can do CTs and VMs on
normal blockdevices (rdb) and also have a file based shared FS (cephFS) both
well integrated into PVE frontend/backend, which other shared storage systems
aren't.

cheers,
Thomas