Getting The Most Out Of Your Epyc Server With Proxmox!

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[ThineHolyBacon]

I'd be down for another L1 vid on configuring HA on Proxmox. Also would love some XCP-NG content :)


VIRTUALIZE ALL THE THINGS

[andreijecu]

Yes please clusters and ceph storage setup tutorial!Thank you Wendell.

[triplefvr]

I wish this guy be my older brother. Omg such a pleasure sit, watch and listen to him. keep it going man!

[gearspider]

I would love a Wendell comparison of these major virtualization implementations; Proxmox, Unraid, FreeNAS, XCP-NG, Xen (standalone).. I am planning a home server to do various things and my buddy in the hosting industry suggests Xen (standalone) to me, but whenever I research it online, everything is about XenServer or XCP-NG.. A detailed explanation of these different products would be amazing!

[vonkruel]

I've recently spent some time playing with Proxmox in a VM, and I'm impressed. I think this is what I'll install on my next server.

When you install Proxmox (with no subscription), after you fix the APT repository and pull in updates, run this:

sed -i.backup "s/data.status !== 'Active'/false/g" && systemctl restart pveproxy.service

Ta-da, no more subscription nag when you log in to the web UI (might have to clear browser cache). Put that in a shell script so you can run it each time you pull updates.

[delicious_lunch]

I feel like every time I find something amazing, Wendell has already done a video about it.

[MakersEase]

I just started looking at proxmox for a small company... We have it installed on a couple R720's to play with. When we finally got to the point were we pulled the network cable on the main machine running the windows vm's and they magically appeared running on the 2nd node (setting up replication and HA).... Awesome! We certainly have a bit to learn but love these videos! (mainly to know what we are doing wrong) ;)

[andljoy]

What are the pros and cons of Proxmox over XCP-NG .


Most importantly, will it let me import a 48 disk freenas pool ?

[kavehminooie]

it would have been great if you could do a comparison with xcp-ng, or in terms of performance, with a container only solution like coreos. thanks for the video

[doman]

Oh and Yes! I would love to see setting up proxmox cluster. Especially because AFAIK there is no easy way of doing host backups on single node setup (only vms and cts backups).

[origamihawk]

This will be very useful for the epyc server I can totally afford

[rklrkl]

A couple of things to be wary about Proxmox and HA - live migration often isn't supported between nodes that are running different major versions of Proxmox, which is a complete pain if you're trying to avoid downtime during a major update of Proxmox. I've even had a few *minor* release differences of Proxmox fail to live migrate between them, which is even more maddening.

Another HA gotcha is that Linux VMs survive only about 25 seconds without their filestore being present before it goes read only and the only way to fix it is to reboot (or power cycle if it's really bad) the VM. So your shared filestore has to also be configured for redundancy, via whatever your preferred replication method is.

[thebearjew]

Your knowledge on Linux and servers blows my mind. I heard your voice on TekSyndicate years ago, and saw you on LTT. "Wait, I recognize that voice!" haha. Love the channel. Getting some spare parts to put together a vm server for webhosting. Glad to know there's a channel like yours I can refer to. Keep it up!

[TheRebel]

Thanks for this! I don't have an EPYC quite yet, but more Proxmox content is really nice to have. It's something I use enough that I love having videos explore what is possible with it and how to use it.

[futuregootecks]

Super helpful! Thank you! Would love to see a video about setting up containers on proxmox. Or a video about how to consolidate old hardware

[Nobodyjbh]

Watched this yesterday on my lunch break at work. Good video. Looking forward to more content on Proxmox and EPYC.

[aaardvaaark]

@4:06 the antec 900 case! That's my case. Soooo much airflow.

[chbrules]

We've just done a large AWS migration of 95% of our infrastructure, but we're aiming to buy some new stuff for the remaining services. I'm definitely trying to get the management to purchase some Epyc hardware. We've been talking about VMWare licensing again, but Proxmox looks really awesome.

Quick question, does Proxmox support iSCSI targets for backend storage? If so, we might be in business!

[csstack]

For the determinism slider, if you want the highest performance possible you will want to choose Power, not Performance. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but check out AMD's Power Performance Determinism whitepaper, or some of their tuning guides which provide a better understanding of how Power Deterministic allows you to extract the maximum performance from your processor.

[KIWIDOGGIE]

I've used proxmox for years, on dedi's and going to use it on my threadripper when I upgrade to a real gaming pc instead of workstation in the next years, I love it!