Search Results for: ceph
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home lab
NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few things, like which hypervisor you use, you can choose from a wide range of…
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home lab
How I Deployed a Self-Hosting Stack with Docker Swarm & MicroCeph
I have been on a journey to try out various self-hosting stacks in the home lab and one of the configurations that has been a great platform for learning and selfhosting has been Docker Swarm with Microceph. This combination of…
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Software Defined Storage
Ceph Dashboard Install and Configuration for Microceph
If you are running Microceph, can you run the Ceph Dashboard as you can in full-blown Ceph? Yes you can! The process to spin this up is fairly straightforward with a few commands to run that will allow you to…
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Home Lab with Microk8s, Microceph, and Portainer
As you guys know I have been exploring what I think are really great setups from a standpoint of a home lab and also for learning purposes in production. Recently, I explored how viable it was to run a Docker…
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Software Defined Storage
Ceph Backup: Don’t Lose Your HCI Data
This is more a public service announcement rather than a technical blog, but we will take a high-level look at a warning that I want to make sure that those who are using Ceph or CephFS on top of Ceph…
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Software Defined Storage
GlusterFS vs Ceph: Two Different Storage Solutions with Pros and Cons
I have been trying out various storage solutions in my home lab environment over the past couple of months or so. Two that I have been extensively testing are GlusterFS vs Ceph, and specifically GlusterFS vs CephFS to be exact,…
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Software Defined Storage
Ceph Dashboard Configuration for Storage Health Metrics
If you are using Ceph storage either in Proxmox or using Ceph storage in vanilla Linux outside of Proxmox, you likely want to have a way to see the health of your Ceph storage environment. Setting up a Ceph dashboard…
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Storage
CephFS for Docker Container Storage
Given that I have been trying Ceph recently for Docker container storage: see my post on that topic here, I wanted to see if I could effectively use CephFS for Docker container storage. If you have been following along in…
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Software Defined Storage
Try Microceph for an Easy Ceph Install
One of the software-defined storage solutions gaining popularity in the enterprise and home lab community is Ceph. Ceph is a powerful storage solution and has many great benefits. However, it can be intimidating to configure and manage if you haven’t…
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Storage
Ceph Storage Calculator to find Capacity and Cost
If you are spinning up a Ceph storage pool and working with Ceph to store things like virtual machines in your Proxmox VE Server cluster, you may want to have an easy way to calculate the usable storage for your…
