Sync rep: Proxmox HA with Everpure ActiveCluster This is a continuation of replication features for FlashArray with a Proxmox environment. I’m running out of witty analogies, so I’ll just start with a joke: What’s a tornado’s favorite game? Twister! ActiveCluster is Everpure’s synchronous replication technology. Meaning that every data written is sent to the other […]
Category: Proxmox
Take Shelter – A Proxmox Async DR Test on Pure FlashArray
Intro If you grew up in Oklahoma like I did, you know the first sign of a tornado isn’t the siren. It’s the sky going deep grey blue, the air suddenly changing from muggy to dry and cool, and your dad walking onto your front porch with his hands on his hips looking up at […]
Beat the Final Boss: A Unofficial Guide to Proxmox & Windows TPM Snapshots on Pure NFS
Intro Ah, the hypervisor migration. That special project where you trade a familiar environment for a brave new world of command lines and wiki pages. It’s all fun and games until you hit those Day 2 operations that were once muscle memory. Suddenly you need to recover that critical, TPM-enabled Windows VM after an admin […]
The Unofficial Proxmox & Pure Storage Cookbook: NFS with nconnect
This blog provides the unofficial steps to configure Proxmox VE to use an NFS share from a Pure Storage FlashArray. Configuring this will allow you to have a shared volume for your proxmox hosts so that you can leverage features like High Availability. I will also include performance optimization with nconnect. This is my preferred […]
The Unofficial Proxmox & Pure Storage Cookbook: iSCSI with Multipathing
In this blog we will be setting up ProxMox with Pure Storage as a central iSCSI LVM device that provides shared storage for a Datacenter Cluster. Pure Storage has done alot of work on this and you can find official documentation at https://support.purestorage.com/bundle/m_proxmox/page/Solutions/Proxmox/topics/t_connecting_proxmox_to_flasharray.html. It’s my personal opinion that NFS is far easier to setup and […]