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Proxmox Clusters

Currently we have one operational Proxmox cluster, 'monster', which has enough CPU and Memory for anything we'll need in the hackspace.

Hardware

The cluster is made up of a single HP SL2x170z G6, which has two blades it it, totalling 4 systems. Rough specs of each are:

Network Layout

All nodes, gateway, and the NAS are on VLAN225. The Proxmox nodes are connected via their 2nd ethernet port, which also has shared LO100 enabled on them.

graph 
    SWITCH1[Switch1 - VLAN225]
    GW[GW]
    MON1[Monster1 - Blade 1]
    MON2[Monster2 - Blade 1]
    MON3[Monster3 - Blade 2]
    MON4[Monster4 - Blade 2]
    MON5[Monster5 - R320]
    NAS1[NAS1 - NFS]
    NAS2[NAS2 - NFS]

    GW <--> SWITCH1
    SWITCH1 <--> MON1
    SWITCH1 <--> MON2
    SWITCH1 <--> MON3
    SWITCH1 <--> MON4
    SWITCH1 <--> MON5
    SWITCH1 <--> NAS1
    SWITCH1 <--> NAS2

Storage Layout

graph 
    MON1[Monster1 - Blade 1]
    MON2[Monster2 - Blade 1]
    MON3[Monster3 - Blade 2]
    MON4[Monster4 - Blade 2]
    MON5[Monster5 - R320]
    NAS[NAS1 - /prox-monster-datastore]
    NAS2[NAS2 - /mnt/sas-10k/proxmox-monster-ds1]

    MON1 --> NAS
    MON2 --> NAS
    MON3 --> NAS
    MON4 --> NAS
    MON5 --> NAS
    MON1 --> NAS2
    MON2 --> NAS2
    MON3 --> NAS2
    MON4 --> NAS2
    MON5 --> NAS2

Admin Tasks

Allowing users access to the Cluster

  • Login to https://monster.int.leighhack.org/ as a Infra member.
  • Click on 'Datacenter (monster)' in the left menu.
  • Goto Users and find the user that requires access.
  • Either add them to the 'Infra', or 'Members' group as needed.

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