This document provides instructions and specifications for setting up a storage environment for practical testing in Proxmox. It describes setting up various virtual machines and containers with Linux and Windows operating systems along with networking tools. It also covers configuring block storage, file storage, and object storage using local disks, RBD/Ceph distributed storage, and examples of container and virtual machine networking configurations for testing interconnection goals.

1. Storage

2. Practical Test
 VMs
 5 x Linux minimum + OpenVPN Server/Client + tcpdump
 Proxmox (?)
 2 x Windows + OpenVPN client + wireshark
 1 x Linux desktop + wireshark
 Containers
 5 x Ubuntu/CentOS + tcpdump
 2 x Host (1 laptop : wifi + wired, 1 desktop/laptop [1
wired]/removable disk ) + CAT 6 cable
 VMWare
 Wireshark
 MS Office
 Internet

3. Storage type
 Block level storage
 Raw images
 Clone/Snapshots
 File level storage
 (POSIX) file system
 Object storage
 Data
 Thin Provisioning

4. Storage
 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
 pvesm
 /etc/pve/storage.cfg
<type>: <STORAGE_ID>
<property> <value>
<property> <value>
 Volumes
 Volume Ownership
 local:230/example-image.raw

5. RBD/Ceph
 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_RBD
 distributed object store
 performance, reliability and scalability
 thin provisioning
 resizable volumes
 distributed and redundant (striped over multiple OSDs)
 full snapshot and clone capabilities
 self healing
 no single point of failure
 scalable to the exabyte level

6. Small deployments
 Ceph services  Proxmox VE node
 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Ceph_Server
 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_RBD
 Configuration
rbd: ceph3
monhost 10.1.1.20 10.1.1.21 10.1.1.22
pool ceph3
content images
username admin
 Authentication
mkdir /etc/pve/priv/ceph
scp <cephserver>:/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
/etc/pve/priv/ceph/<STORAGE_ID>.keyring

7. Lab 3 - feedback
 Planning

8. Ex 1
 Container
 C1
 IP: 172.16.10.10/24
 VM
 VM1
 IP: 192.168.10.100/24 and IP 172.16.10.100/24
 Goal
 C1 <>VM1

9. Ex 2
 Container
 C1
 IP: 172.16.10.10/24
 VM
 VM1
 IP: 192.168.10.100/24
 Goal
 C1 <>VM1

10. Ex 3
 Container
 C1
 IP: 172.16.10.10/24
 C2
 IP: 172.17.10.10/24
 VM
 VM1
 IP: 172.16.10.100/24
 Goal:
 C1 <> C2, but C2 !<> VM1

11. Ex 4
 Container
 C1
 IP: 172.16.10.10/24
 C2
 IP: 172.17.10.10/24
 VM
 VM1
 IP: 172.16.10.100/24
 Goal:
 C1 <> C2, C2 <>VM1