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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

By : Ahmed
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Book Image

Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

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By: Ahmed

Overview of this book

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization solution that has enterprise-class features for managing virtual machines, for storage, and to virtualize both Linux and Windows application workloads. You'll begin with a refresher on the advanced installation features and the Proxmox GUI to familiarize yourself with the Proxmox VE hypervisor. Then, you'll move on to explore Proxmox under the hood, focusing on storage systems, such as Ceph, used with Proxmox. Moving on, you'll learn to manage KVM virtual machines, deploy Linux containers fast, and see how networking is handled in Proxmox. You'll also learn how to protect a cluster or a VM with a firewall and explore the new high availability features introduced in Proxmox VE 5.0. Next, you'll dive deeper into the backup/restore strategy and see how to properly update and upgrade a Proxmox node. Later, you'll learn how to monitor a Proxmox cluster and all of its components using Zabbix. Finally, you'll discover how to recover Promox from disaster strikes through some real-world examples. By the end of the book, you'll be an expert at making Proxmox work in production environments with minimal downtime.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Monitoring a Ceph cluster with third-party options


In this section, we will see how to implement a third-party solution to monitor the Ceph cluster. There are several options that can be used to monitor a Ceph cluster graphically, which are as follows:

All three options are viable options used to monitor the Ceph cluster, but due to the simplicity and effectiveness of Ceph dashboard, we are going to see how to install the Ceph dashboard in this chapter. This is the only free monitoring dashboard, and it is read-only, without any management ability. This is also safer, since an unauthorized user cannot make Ceph changes. The Ceph Calamari and Kraken dashboards are both equally challenging to install and configure.

The Ceph dashboard can be installed on any Ceph node or Proxmox+Ceph node in the cluster. As long as it can read the ceph.conf...