Proxmox bind mount – mount storage in a container
You can allocate storage to an OpenVZ container during creation, when the container is offline and even when the container is active. The main problem with this is that it is not shared, and has to be...
View ArticleManually Mount a Ceph Storage Pool in Proxmox
The latest BETA of Proxmox, and soon to be released 3.2 comes with the Ceph client automatically installed which makes mount Ceph storage pools painless. You can mount the Ceph storage pool using the...
View ArticleCreate a 3 Node Ceph Storage Cluster
Ceph is an open source storage platform which is designed for modern storage needs. Ceph is scalable to the exabyte level and designed to have no single points of failure making it ideal for...
View ArticleCeph Storage on Proxmox
Ceph is an open source storage platform which is designed for modern storage needs. Ceph is scalable to the exabyte level and designed to have no single points of failure making it ideal for...
View ArticleProxmox 4.x bind mount – mount storage in an LXC container
An LXC containers storage is simple to set and maintain and is usually done through either a Web based GUI or a command line utility. It’s simple to set the size of disk allocated to an LXC container,...
View ArticleUse A File As A Linux Block Device
Just like when creating a SWAP file, you can create a file on a disk and present it as a block device. The block device would have a maximum file size of the backing file, and (as long as it’s not in...
View ArticleSmall Scale Ceph Replicated Storage
I’ve written a few posts about Ceph, how it works and how it’s set up and it mostly revolves around large scale storage for storing things like virtual machines. This post will focus on using Ceph...
View ArticleWhere to Run Ceph Processes For High Availability
Get Social!In this blog post we’re going to take a detailed look at the Ceph server processes within a Ceph cluster of multiple server nodes. Ceph is a highly available network storage layer that uses...
View Articlerclone Systemd startup mount script
Get Social!Rclone is a command line utility used for reading and writing to almost any type of cloud or remote storage. From Google Drive to Ceph, rclone supports almost any cloud-based remote storage...
View ArticleStorj Storage Node Docker-Compose file
Get Social!Storj V3 is now in BETA and recruiting Storage Node operators. Since V3 of Storj, Docker is used exclusively to wrap up creating a new Storage Node into a simple, manageable container....
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