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Proxmox Cookbook

By : Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid
Book Image

Proxmox Cookbook

By: Wasim Ahmed, Ravi K Jangid

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE's intuitive interface, high availability, and unique central management system puts it on par with the world’s best virtualization platforms. Its simplicity and high quality of service is what makes it the foremost choice for most system administrators. Starting with a step-by-step installation of Proxmox nodes along with an illustrated tour of Proxmox graphical user interface where you will spend most of your time managing a cluster, this book will get you up and running with the mechanisms of Proxmox VE. Various entities such as Cluster, Storage, and Firewall are also covered in an easy to understand format. You will then explore various backup solutions and restore mechanisms, thus learning to keep your applications and servers safe. Next, you will see how to upgrade a Proxmox node with a new release and apply update patches through GUI or CLI. Monitoring resources and virtual machines is required on an enterprise level, to maintain performance and uptime; to achieve this, we learn how to monitor host machine resources and troubleshoot common issues in the setup. Finally, we will walk through some advanced configurations for VM followed by a list of commands used for Proxmox and Ceph cluster through CLI. With this focused and detailed guide you will learn to work your way around with Proxmox VE quickly and add to your skillset.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Proxmox Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring a Ceph cluster with the Ceph dashboard


There are several options to monitor a Ceph cluster graphically. They are as follows:

All three of these are viable options to monitor a Ceph cluster. However, due to their simplicity and effectiveness, in this chapter, we are going to see how to install the Ceph dashboard.

Getting ready

The Ceph dashboard can be installed on any Ceph node or the Proxmox+Ceph node in the cluster. So long as it can read the ceph.conf file, it will function just fine. The Ceph dashboard does not require any web server or any other service to function. It is also a one-way monitoring system, meaning, we can read data but never write to the cluster.

How to do it…

  1. Install git using the following command if it is not installed in the monitoring node:

    # apt-get install git
    
  2. Clone the...