Categoría: Proxmox

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Building a lab with PROXMOX – Part 2 – Hypervisors Installation

Let’s continue setting up our Proxmox Lab.

Download the ISO file from the Proxmox site .

I then wrote it to a USB Thumb drive to boot and Install, I use a Mac, so I did it with BalenaEtcher.

Now, I will post a few screenshots of the installation process.

I did the same steps on the three nodes, just changing the managing IP address and hostname, the rest, the same:

Here, IP Adress and hostname!!
the other two hosts look the same, different IP address and hostname.

The OS installation is super simple,
Now, in the next entry, we will get into details with the console, initial configurations and shared CEPH storage.

Stay tuned.

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Building a lab with PROXMOX – Part 1 – HW

Hi there:
After months of thinking, I took the step to switch my lab to Proxmox,
I’ve been a Vmware «guy» for many years, but I knew the time came to give it a try, after many companies switching to it.

I decided to re-use the hardware I had from previous projects, to see the capabilities and «how tiny» the setup could be.

Here we go:

The hardware Im using is the following

  • 3 x Zima Board – 8GB RAM, Intel Celeron 4 Core
  • 3 x SSD 240GB (OS)
  • 3 x SSD 480GB (Storage)
  • 1 x Managed 1Gbps 8p Switch (HPE Office Connect)
  • Ethernet cables

This hardware was laying around in my lab from previous projects,
and now looks super cool!

The electrical consumption is very low.
Im monitoring it, but for now, 10W each node….. xD

Few more pictures here:

Cheers.