Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Central storage management

By separating shared storage clusters from primary Proxmox clusters, we can manage two clusters without them interfering with each other. Since shared storage systems can be set up with separate nodes and physical switches, managing them based on different authorizations and permissions becomes an easier task. NAS, SAN, and other types of shared storage solutions come with their own management programs from where an administrator or operator can check storage cluster health, disk status, free space, and so on. The Ceph storage is configured via CLI, but Proxmox has integrated a great deal of Ceph management options within the Proxmox GUI, which makes Ceph cluster management much easier. Using the API, Proxmox can ...