Today I wanted to get one of the Zabbix pre-made images up and running in the new Promxox VE 4.0 cluster. Since the primary cluster storage (and what makes it very easy to get a HA VM up and running) is Ceph.
If you missed the main site Proxmox VE and Ceph post, feel free to check that out.
The Zabbix image for KVM comes in a qcow2 format. Proxmox VE unfortunately lacks the really slick image import that you have with Hyper-V or ESXi. So here is what I did:
1. Create a new blank VM with a qcow2 disk format
2. I downloaded the Zabbix image from the Sourceforge direct link and overwrote the standard image.
3. I then went to the VM's Hardware tab and used the Move Disk feature and selected my Ceph pool. It was off and running!
4. After the copy was complete, there was a final cache selection screen before it was done:
5. At this point everything boots normally. Hello Zabbix
The big trick to this whole thing was to make the VM on local storage, then just migrate it to Ceph. I did try a post-Ceph migration to a different node before booting. It took all of 1-2 seconds and booted perfectly.
I hope that helps someone.
If you missed the main site Proxmox VE and Ceph post, feel free to check that out.
The Zabbix image for KVM comes in a qcow2 format. Proxmox VE unfortunately lacks the really slick image import that you have with Hyper-V or ESXi. So here is what I did:
1. Create a new blank VM with a qcow2 disk format
2. I downloaded the Zabbix image from the Sourceforge direct link and overwrote the standard image.
3. I then went to the VM's Hardware tab and used the Move Disk feature and selected my Ceph pool. It was off and running!
4. After the copy was complete, there was a final cache selection screen before it was done:
5. At this point everything boots normally. Hello Zabbix
The big trick to this whole thing was to make the VM on local storage, then just migrate it to Ceph. I did try a post-Ceph migration to a different node before booting. It took all of 1-2 seconds and booted perfectly.
I hope that helps someone.