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Proxmox has it's issues tho. Im sure they all do. I used to run a Windows cluster, it was great but a lot to manage. Proxmox has horrible network stability issues and STONITH really be killer with corosync. It's HA storage is a little lacking tho. You either get hyperconverged (which i guess is getting popular) or standalone ceph which is not cost effective.
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ChipTuner 2mo ago

I really liked a 2 node HA SAN setup with iSCSI and virtual IPs. Windows had SMB multichannel as a backhaul for HA storage quorum. SMB has fantastic performance with Windows using link aggregation, and load balancing so you can easily use a mix of 10g fiber and 1g. Linux cannot do this at all. LCAP blows in comparison. Iscsi multipath is better, but still. And I'm not sure if anyone has priced out 10gb switches lately...

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Dimi 2mo ago

I’m using 10g iscsi rn in proxmox

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ChipTuner 2mo ago

What does it look like? Currently my SAN has a single 10g link which is my single point of failure, and I have not found a way to handle fallback to the 4gb lacp group it also has.

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Dimi 2mo ago

Won’t be discussing the setup for this one too much, but I will be in the future. I’ll make sure it’s live-streamed & I let you know ahead of time.

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ChipTuner 2mo ago

Sure please do! I'm wondering if I can use Active/Passive virtual IPs now to handle network failover. I don't have too much experience doing that on Linux. Literally learning that in practice as we speak.