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    Micro XCP-ng cluster Thoughts and Suggestions.

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    • brodiecyberB
      brodiecyber @gskger
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      @gskger

      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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      • brodiecyberB
        brodiecyber @gskger
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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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        • brodiecyberB
          brodiecyber @gskger
          last edited by

          @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

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          • brodiecyberB
            brodiecyber
            last edited by

            1682689286731.jpg New Hosts.PNG

            Hosts are online and updating before i cluster them

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            • brodiecyberB
              brodiecyber @brodiecyber
              last edited by

              @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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              • brodiecyberB
                brodiecyber
                last edited by

                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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                • brodiecyberB
                  brodiecyber @brodiecyber
                  last edited by

                  @brodiecyber

                  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 🤠

                  MicroXen.PNG

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                  • brodiecyberB
                    brodiecyber @brodiecyber
                    last edited by

                    @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 software

                    I'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

                    • HA pihole with a keepalived

                    • WIreguard

                    • Terraform

                    • Dashboards. RSS, Archivebox

                    Will be adding

                    • dedicated XO-ce VM

                    • Unifi Controller

                    Infrastructure.PNG

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                    • brodiecyberB
                      brodiecyber
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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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                      • brodiecyberB
                        brodiecyber
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                        New update

                        I got a asus n3150i-c motherboard and found a spare ssd
                        P_setting_fff_1_90_end_500.jpg

                        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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