The purpose of this thread is to discuss the idea of moving the STH colocation to a Hyper-V cluster for web hosting.
Here is the current colocation installation:
Current configuration
Nodes 1-4 each have 48GB of DDR3 and 160GB Intel SSDs
Nodes 1 and 3 each have a 3TB WD Red and a 120GB scratch SSD
Nodes 1, 2 and 4 have dual L5520 and node 3 has dual L5638
Currently the main STH VM is running on node 3 and the main forums VM is running on node 1. All nodes are currently running Proxmox VE 3.1
My current thoughts on how this would work:
Nodes 2 & 4 would be simple Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 "compute" nodes
Nodes 1 & 3 would be Windows Server 2012 R2 (Essentials/ DC/ Standard?) with Hyper-V and host, active directory, SMB 3.0 shares, also with the 3TB drives for backups
Thoughts on the migration:
Move raw disk images from Proxmox Nodes 1 and 3 to Node 4
Install Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V in Nodes 1 and 3
Install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on Node 2
Migrate images from Proxmox Node 4 to Nodes 1 and 3
Change Proxmox Node 4 to Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Here is the current colocation installation:
Current configuration
Nodes 1-4 each have 48GB of DDR3 and 160GB Intel SSDs
Nodes 1 and 3 each have a 3TB WD Red and a 120GB scratch SSD
Nodes 1, 2 and 4 have dual L5520 and node 3 has dual L5638
Currently the main STH VM is running on node 3 and the main forums VM is running on node 1. All nodes are currently running Proxmox VE 3.1
My current thoughts on how this would work:
Nodes 2 & 4 would be simple Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 "compute" nodes
Nodes 1 & 3 would be Windows Server 2012 R2 (Essentials/ DC/ Standard?) with Hyper-V and host, active directory, SMB 3.0 shares, also with the 3TB drives for backups
Thoughts on the migration:
Move raw disk images from Proxmox Nodes 1 and 3 to Node 4
Install Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V in Nodes 1 and 3
Install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on Node 2
Migrate images from Proxmox Node 4 to Nodes 1 and 3
Change Proxmox Node 4 to Hyper-V Server 2012 R2