Chapter 12. Proxmox Production-Level Setup

So far in this book, we have seen the internal workings of Proxmox. We now know how to properly set up a fully functional Proxmox cluster. We discussed Ceph—a robust and redundant shared storage system—and how we can connect it with Proxmox. We also saw what a virtual network is and how it works with the Proxmox cluster.

In this chapter, we are going to see which components play a crucial part in making a Proxmox cluster production-ready, with multilayer redundancy, good performance, and stability. We are going to cover the following topics:

• Definition of production level
• Key components of a production-level setup
• Entry-level and advanced-level hardware requirements

Throughout this chapter, you will notice that we have used user-built hardware configurations instead of ready-made branded servers. The purpose of this is to show you what sort of node configuration is possible using off-the-shelf commodity hardware to cut costs while setting up a stable...