On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote:
What sort of shortcomings do you see for, say, Proxmox? I would say
that by using Open vSwitch & Free Range Routing (with EVPN), one can
get pretty close to the VMware NSX. And with enabling Ceph on Proxmox,
one can get the VSan-like functional distributed/block storage. Then
throw Ansible at it for automation.
Proxmox does not support the current architecture I have at work:
clusters of hosts served by a central storage system connected to the
hosts by FC SAN. I run few huge volumes on the storage that are shared
among the cluster hosts. As I have seen this architecture in many
companies I think I can the lack of support for it a shortcoming.
It might be an old fashioned architecture, but it served me well for many
years. I know I could work around that by presenting individual volumes
to each host and then put Ceph on it to get something like vSAN. But that
would be a) a ton of work and b) a mixture of architecture that increases
complexity.
Unfortunately we just bought new hosts and a storage system tailored to
that architecture just a few weeks before the mess with VMware became
public. So I'm stuck with the architecture for the next couple of years.
So you are looking for someone to add support for that architecture to
Proxmox, maybe in a consortium with other interested parties ?
[ I am *not* bidding, nor interested in joining the consortium. ]
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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