Dell R710 Nested Proxmox Setup November 10, 2022, 10:20:44 pm Hi all, again,I have been running this Dell R710 for months and so far the test was good. I already upgraded its ram to 288gb (16gb x 18 slots)[1]and install 1TB SSD Kingston KC600 replacing its CD/DVD drive.However, I find that running Proxmox directly may not be that wise, so I recently self-learned about nested hypervisor virtualization as proxmox also offer the same capability. I already managed to pass host this VMPVE but when I do so, I got no internet connection so currently I am in need to figure out the best way to do so.Not to mention I added another 4 ports NIC PCIE to this R710 which I already have integrated 4 ports NIC that I also need to pass to this VMPVE.Anybody who have some ideas, knowledge, experience, links etc please do share with me so I can study this setup further and implement the best of them.Thanking you in advance.1 Actually when I did this I don't know the affect of using all slots which is reducing RAM speed to only 800Mhz and I don't know that this R710 can actually run 384gb RAM at 1333Mhz by using only two slots per channel per side (32gb x 12 slots). I feel like I wasted my monies for lesser speed where I can get a lot more RAM with higher overall speed.↵
Re: Dell R710 Nested Proxmox Setup Reply #1 – November 13, 2022, 07:53:23 am Sorry, no experience in that area but sounds like a fun project.Bummer on the ram speed !!
Re: Dell R710 Nested Proxmox Setup Reply #2 – November 13, 2022, 06:27:55 pm No worries. At least if one get a hand on the similar server, one will know how to max its ram properly.I managed to fix the internet connection to VMPVE. It was not resolving properly so fixing resolv.conf seemes to do the trick. Now all vm inside the VMPVE works.I set the server to use the 1TB SSD with proxmox as main PVE and created the VMPVE in the 1.7TB SAS (raid 6).I am currently thinking to keep some ISO images and snapshot backups in the SSD while having another copies in the SAS.I may also run a backup node inside the same, maybe VMPVE2 which will replicate VMPVE1.But doing so in the same raid6 may not be wise, so I may have to restructure again at the server level and split the raid 6 into two 800gb instead.I am still thinking about it while keeping notes to what I have done so far for future references.I will update later.