Setting Up Ceph Storage on My 3-Node Proxmox Cluster

After setting up my 3-node Proxmox cluster, I realized I still had a major problem with storage. It was either local to each node or dependent on my NAS. Either way, it's a single point of failure.

Enter Ceph: a distributed storage that turns my three nodes into a hyperconverged cluster.

In this video, I walk through setting up Ceph on Proxmox, explain the architecture and components along the way. Finally, we will benchmark some (way too many!) pool configurations to figure out what actually works for my homelab.

⏱️ *Timestamps* ⏱️

00:00 Intro
00:50 What is Ceph?
02:52 Setup Overview
05:27 Installing Ceph
07:05 Ceph Cluster Bootstrap
08:39 Monitors
10:01 Managers
11:17 Metadata Servers
13:09 OSDs
15:56 Pools, Failure Domains, CRUSH
24:12 Pool Applications
27:07 Using Ceph Storage in Proxmox
29:34 Benchmarks!
37:15 Conclusion

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