Perhaps I’m just a little slow, but this one took me a while to figure out. I know there’s a lot of documentation floating around, but none of it seemed to work for my environment.
\nI was given a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server (2.5″ SAS backplane) with 8x 2.5″ 147GB 10KRPM SAS drives. It only had 16GB RAM so I upgraded to 32GB. Set the RAID to 10 (588GB raw) and away I went. I was also given a Cisco 2950 switch to play around with.<\/p>\n
First I installed vmware esxi 4.1 (I know 5.0 is already out, but I already had an older server running esxi41 and wanted to keep them roughly the same). I then realized the free hypervisor didn’t include many features I was used to (Live migrations is huge in my book). For shame.<\/p>\n
It was then that a fellow worker wanted to install Server 2008 R2 with hyper-v. For shame.<\/p>\n
I like free, and I like a lot of the features of KVM, so I went with Proxmox 1.9.<\/p>\n
I plugged eth0 into port 21 (vlan 40) for management
\nI plugged eth1 into port 5 (trunk) for trunking<\/p>\n
Here’s my proxmox networking config (\/etc\/network\/interfaces) # LOCALHOST # INTERFACES # PRIMARY BOND # SECONDARY BONDS auto bond0.10 auto bond0.20 auto bond0.30 # BRIDGES auto vmbr1 auto vmbr2 auto vmbr3 And here’s my Cisco switch configuration (just for the ports used obviously):<\/p>\n interface FastEthernet0\/5 interface FastEthernet0\/21 Next I’ll be testing some iscsi server connectivity.<\/p>\n Well I went ahead and ran some initial tests: CPU BOGOMIPS: 10772.71 Dell 2950 Production: CPU BOGOMIPS: 50539.82 Still setting up the test iSCSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps I’m just a little slow, but this one took me a while to figure out. I know there’s a lot of documentation floating around, but none of it seemed to work for my environment. I was given a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server (2.5″ SAS backplane) with 8x 2.5″ 147GB 10KRPM SAS drives. It only … Continue reading Proxmox VLAN<\/span>
\n* as this didn’t like my tabbing, here’s a link <\/a>to the txt file* <\/p>\n
\nauto lo
\niface lo inet loopback<\/p>\n
\niface eth0 inet manual
\niface eth1 inet manual<\/p>\n
\nauto bond0
\niface bond0 inet manual
\n slaves eth0 eth1
\n bond_miimon 100
\n bond_mode 4<\/p>\n
\nauto bond0.40
\niface bond0.40 inet manual
\n vlan-raw-device bond0<\/p>\n
\niface bond0.10 inet manual
\n vlan-raw-device bond0<\/p>\n
\niface bond0.20 inet manual
\n vlan-raw-device bond0<\/p>\n
\niface bond0.30 inet manual
\n vlan-raw-device bond0<\/p>\n
\nauto vmbr0
\niface vmbr0 inet static
\n address 10.4.0.216
\n netmask 255.255.255.0
\n gateway 10.4.0.5
\n bridge_ports bond0.40
\n bridge_stp off
\n bridge_fd 0<\/p>\n
\niface vmbr1 inet manual
\n bridge_ports bond0.10
\n bridge_stp off
\n bridge_fd 0<\/p>\n
\niface vmbr2 inet manual
\n bridge_ports bond0.20
\n bridge_stp off
\n bridge_fd 0<\/p>\n
\niface vmbr3 inet manual
\n bridge_ports bond0.30
\n bridge_stp off
\n bridge_fd 0\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n description proxmox VM
\n switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30,40
\n switchport mode trunk
\n spanning-tree portfast<\/p>\n
\n description proxmox Management
\n switchport access vlan 40
\n spanning-tree portfast<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPOC server:
\n2.7GHz AMD x64, 4GB RAM, 160GB SATA 7200, 10\/100\/1000<\/p>\n
\nREGEX\/SECOND: 418377
\nHD SIZE: 36.67 GB (\/dev\/mapper\/pve-root)
\nBUFFERED READS: 98.46 MB\/sec
\nAVERAGE SEEK TIME: 11.16 ms
\nFSYNCS\/SECOND: 573.28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDual 3.16GHz Xeon (X5460), 32GB RAM, 8X 147GB SAS 10000, Dual 10\/100\/1000<\/p>\n
\nREGEX\/SECOND: 1036781
\nHD SIZE: 94.49 GB (\/dev\/mapper\/pve-root)
\nBUFFERED READS: 282.70 MB\/sec
\nAVERAGE SEEK TIME: 5.22 ms
\nFSYNCS\/SECOND: 1998.46<\/p><\/blockquote>\n