A Closer Look at the Proxinator: Combining Virtualization and Storage with Proxmox and Ceph

[@kalam564]

A nice follow up video would be showcasing a small cluster of these with Promox and Ceph using NVMe storage, then show storage setup, configuration, and performance on a Linux and Windows VM.

[@djvincon]

YES!

[@45Drives]

Great idea - stay tuned!

[@MarkRose1337]

I hope you're sending one of these out to STH!

[@G4rg4m31_]

HI, ITS PATRICK FROM STH

[@wyattbonnette3414]

I've said it once, but it would be nice to buy these cases in barebone configurations. Like the case and the psu only. No fans, no mobo cpu ram sas; only the case and backplane and psu.

[@Motocross40swe]

How else are they going to make a nice margin? gonna need the 1 socket Supermicro board and lowest spec Xeon for atleast 140% retail price! Jokes aside i couldnt agree more.

[@Darkk6969]

You might be able to if you call their sales dept.

[@michaelcooper2628]

Nice but Just don’t think that companies would pick this idea up and maybe a little to flashy. And most homelabers besides the ones that reviews them and get them free would be snow to afford them. Now I kinda like what 45 drives did with the hl but still that is expensive

[@gcs8]

Think I would want to see a dual node version.

[@hpsfresh]

I think you should add 3.5 drives too. Alongside u.2 drives. Also 64 cores can be not enough for ceph + vms.

[@MarkRose1337]

They have 3.5 drives models. Check the link!

[@CatalystReaction]

this is how can tell all of the engineering for this product was thrown out the window... everything that will be frequented, is at the back lol. nice concept tho.

[@yavivid]

That's awesome, Brett. I would love to see a cluster setup of Proxinator showcasing PetaSan in action leveraging enterprise-class features of Proxmox SDDC.

[@tommybronze3451]

Great idea, but I think you guys wasted a lot of internal space. IF one want's to use this with GPU's, they would like to have a bit more than one gpu - if you shift around the internal I think you could make a space for 4 not 1 GPU. You could also make the taller version where people can dump as many GPU's as they want if those are vertical not horizontal, just give them mounting places and high grade pcie cables.

[@---tr9qg]

why not linstor ?

[@builtofire1]

so i am a little confused, why would you launch a ddr4 based product in 2024 ? maybe for a storage server it would be ok, but here you enter in compute node hyper converged clustering virtual env management. just curious. thanks.

[@tonyc523]

The amount of "should have done differently" on this is astounding. There is NO market for this product. The folks/business who have the money would never buy it. The folks who would buy it dont have tge money. Needs to be redesigned. See the myriad comments here.

[@tonyc523]

Mobo options available for this system are all wrong.

[@evaldaskowka]

​@@tonyc523 Been using enclosures with blades running proxmox and ceph on same node, this is probably the same, but more expensive and less flexible

[@urzaaaaa]

You should send some of these to our favourite youtubers, so they can make cool stuff with it and we all an salivate over it :D

[@yourpcmd]

Need to make a short depth case.

[@LordVexen]

Can you do a micro tower?

[@shephusted2714]

what would be better is a box that holds 4 full size gpu but overall it looks like a good first effort - it will sell and you can turn up the volume with subsequent iterations

[@nadtz]

You can already get GPU servers if that's what you need, what makes this nice is density in a relatively small footprint and not being locked in to Dell/HP. Depending on exact pricing I could see using something like this with some of my customers who are moving from older hardware and looking to consolidate.

[@BillyBurtonTech]

Very nice. Does Snapshield run on a ZFS/Ceph cluster run in Proxmox?

[@45Drives]

@BillyBurtonTech Yes! As long as you are using SMB to share your storage to users then Snapshield will work. In this case, we would virtualize SMB gateways that would do double duty of running Snapshield and exporting SMB shares.

[@erwilliams]

I'd like to see support for Intel Flex GPUs.

[@sebastianslapek]

would prefer ESXinator

[@flow5718]

you don't wanna raw dog it with M$ dawg

[@BreetaiZentradi]

Then just load ESX on this. The new broadcom licensing is going to make that spendy. This is exactly why 45 drives is building this. There are smaller enterprises that need to move out of VSphere. This is a proper solution. It can run VSphere, Proxmox or anything else for that matter.

[@terrydennis467]

That's on the path to ESXtinction.