Micro XCP-ng cluster Thoughts and Suggestions.
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Sure thing Ill update the post.
Just waiting on a the cases and boot SSDs should be here Thursday. Then need to figure out if i want to use some cheap HDDs or cheap SSDs for XOSTOR
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@gskger But in the absence of runX containers
I used some Alpine Linux VMs with an overkill amount of ram at 512mb yes mb and 10gb of storage and because it supports docker and compose you can run any docker app you just need to make sure their is enough ram for the running container.
only thing is no VM icon
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@gskger Thought id update you the cases are coming today
Apparently yesterday was a public holiday
Great for relaxation.
Bad for when your waiting on components.But on another not i had an idea
I have an available PCIE 2.0 x1 slot that maxes out at the speed of SATA
So i had the idea for using an m.2 to PCIE adapter and some cheap nvme drives
so i can have a local SR on each node and an HA SR distributed on all nodes. not sure yet but this could be interesting -
Hosts are online and updating before i cluster them
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@brodiecyber After 2 hours of waiting its fianlly updates and cluster configured.
I will note out of 8GB of RAM. Dom0 is using 1.9GB leaving me with 6.1GB of RAM
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Update the cluster is doing good i just need to get some SSDs for XOSTOR.
I have a 1cpu 1gb ram 25gb storage VM running over gigabit networking for ha storage. i don't recommend it its just for testing because disk io and bandwidth is limited.
VM runs and live migration takes about 17 Mississippi
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Update Setting up cloud-init templates to provision VMs with Terraform and Ansible for application and patch management.
Maybe ill even setup a XO-ce dedicated to this cluster
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@brodiecyber ok
new update
Redoing my cloud-init templates and preparing for the next version of Debian in June release 12.
Am using terraform to provision virtual machines and cloud-init and ansible to install softwareI'm also using the boot disk as VM storage i don't recommend it as its a 120GB disk and i had to redo my templates as the VM they provision are to big for the little storage.
but Im running
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HA pihole with a keepalived
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WIreguard
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Terraform
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Dashboards. RSS, Archivebox
Will be adding
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dedicated XO-ce VM
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Unifi Controller
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Ive still got 4GB of ram to spare on Xen- 2 and 3 so abit more room for 1 CPU/RAM vms to deploy
I still think that this a the perfect environment for RUNx containers just the efficiency especially with memory will help alot
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New update
I got a asus n3150i-c motherboard and found a spare ssd
Im reusing a node for parts and am installing truenas scale as a shared storage target for NFS
Its only 100gb of SSD storage but before i redo my workloads im waiting on debian 12 to be released
so im down a compute node but am up on shared storage with dedicated node
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