Wow really impressed with Proxmox, it's way better than the first time I tried to use it, which was like probably like 10 years ago. Super easy to setup and everything more or less works.
I have a temp setup right now running on ESXi, and I am having some issues getting VT-D to work, so I'm not getting good performance but that will be solved when I put this on bare metal hardware. This is not an ideal setup but even then it is working ok.
I even made a cluster to play around with as it's my first time experiencing ability to do live migrations in a non enterprise environment running expensive licensed software. This is all free. Tested a migration and it was flawless. Ping from my workstation to the VM being migrated:
The 3ms is when the migration started, there's also a 11ms blip. That's it. Nothing in dmesg or anything like that either, the guest OS pretty much did not see a thing.
Now I'm itching to buy hardware but I really don't have the budget yet. I have about 3k in my savings but that's for my power upgrades, need to finish that first, then start saving up for hardware. As much as I'd like to go with some rackmount servers I can't justify the cost anymore due to less disposable income now days so will go with off lease SFF workstations. They are super cheap on ebay, like $300 shipped for a decent i7 one. Goal is to get like 5+ of them. I might start with 2 and add more later. I'll keep the old ESXi box around but slowly migrate stuff off it over time.
I have a temp setup right now running on ESXi, and I am having some issues getting VT-D to work, so I'm not getting good performance but that will be solved when I put this on bare metal hardware. This is not an ideal setup but even then it is working ok.
I even made a cluster to play around with as it's my first time experiencing ability to do live migrations in a non enterprise environment running expensive licensed software. This is all free. Tested a migration and it was flawless. Ping from my workstation to the VM being migrated:
Code:
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=154 ttl=64 time=0.713 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=155 ttl=64 time=0.946 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=156 ttl=64 time=0.782 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=157 ttl=64 time=3.09 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=158 ttl=64 time=1.07 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=159 ttl=64 time=1.32 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=160 ttl=64 time=11.7 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=161 ttl=64 time=0.654 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=162 ttl=64 time=0.836 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=163 ttl=64 time=0.802 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=164 ttl=64 time=0.831 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=165 ttl=64 time=0.768 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=166 ttl=64 time=0.791 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=167 ttl=64 time=0.983 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=168 ttl=64 time=0.823 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=169 ttl=64 time=1.02 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=170 ttl=64 time=0.904 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.15 (10.1.1.15): icmp_seq=171 ttl=64 time=1.04 msThe 3ms is when the migration started, there's also a 11ms blip. That's it. Nothing in dmesg or anything like that either, the guest OS pretty much did not see a thing.
Now I'm itching to buy hardware but I really don't have the budget yet. I have about 3k in my savings but that's for my power upgrades, need to finish that first, then start saving up for hardware. As much as I'd like to go with some rackmount servers I can't justify the cost anymore due to less disposable income now days so will go with off lease SFF workstations. They are super cheap on ebay, like $300 shipped for a decent i7 one. Goal is to get like 5+ of them. I might start with 2 and add more later. I'll keep the old ESXi box around but slowly migrate stuff off it over time.