Cost-Optimized Hyperconverged Architecture
with Proxmox VE and Open‑E JovianDSS
The Open-E JovianDSS with Proxmox VE solution offers a highly efficient and cost-optimized hyperconverged High Availability (HA) Cluster. This architecture distinguishes itself by running a complete virtualization, storage, and application environment on just two high-end servers, significantly reducing hardware costs compared to standard three-server deployments, typical for Proxmox and Ceph integration.
An optional third, low-cost node is integrated for enterprise-grade data protection, backup, and instant disaster recovery, leveraging Open-E JovianDSS On- and Off-site Data Protection (OODP) to achieve a near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and ensure seamless business continuity.
Key Proxmox and Open-E JovianDSS Integration Benefits Include:
- Significant Cost Reduction: Implement a complete virtualization, storage, and application environment on just two high-end servers, eliminating the need for traditional, more expensive three-server deployments and significantly reducing hardware costs.
- Enterprise-Grade Data Protection: Achieve near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with continuous On- and Off-site Data Protection (OODP) and instant restore capabilities, ensuring your data is always safe and recoverable.
- Robust High Availability (HA): Benefit from a hyperconverged HA cluster designed for 24/7 uptime. An optional third low-cost node can act as a Proxmox VE quorum node and a dedicated backup repository, enabling rapid disaster recovery and seamless business continuity during outages or various data damage scenarios.
- Simplified Management & Recovery: Streamline operations with the unique mechanism for instant and automated backup of VM/CT configuration files, which are stored alongside their associated virtual disks, simplifying backup management and recovery processes.
- Scalable and Resilient Architecture: Build an infrastructure that supports large-scale deployments while remaining cost-effective and accessible for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs).
- Optimized Performance with NFS: Leverage NFS with the nconnect option for superior performance and simpler administration compared to iSCSI solutions, ensuring optimal IOPS and throughput in your Proxmox VE environment.
Open‑E JovianDSS & Proxmox VE
Integrated System Configuration Example
The basic configuration for integrating Open-E JovianDSS and Proxmox VE consists of six machines: five operating in two clusters and one serving as an additional backup node. This setup ensures high availability across both systems by adding an extra data protection layer and incorporating another Open-E JovianDSS node, empowering your infrastructure with Open-E JovianDSS On- & Off-site Data Protection (OODP).
OODP delivers 24/7, continuous backup and disaster recovery with intervals as short as one minute. Its ultra-efficient design consumes minimal system resources, enabling uninterrupted backups — even in heavily loaded environments running thousands of virtual machines or containers.
A notable advantage of Proxmox VE is its use of a clustered filesystem exclusively for machine configuration data, excluding virtual disks. Because virtual disks do not reside on the clustered filesystem, Proxmox VE reduces overhead and can support more virtual machines or containers on the same hardware.
By combining an Open-E JovianDSS HA cluster with OODP and Proxmox VE, Internet service providers can build highly efficient computing environments that include built-in, enterprise-grade data protection—crucial for serving thousands of customers reliably. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) also benefit from these features by gaining enterprise-level capabilities at a lower cost compared to other solutions.
Open‑E JovianDSS & Proxmox VE
Integration Performance Statistics
The presented statistics show the performance results achieved with Linux virtual machines using the FIO test tool. The test ensured ongoing operations while achieving consistent and stable performance in the virtualized environment.
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Open-E JovianDSS with Proxmox VE - High Availability Cluster with Backup and Disaster Recovery
This comprehensive guide details the setup, configuration, and advanced features for integrating Open-E JovianDSS with Proxmox VE for a hyperconverged High Availability cluster. It includes in-depth disaster recovery scenarios and highlights automation tools.
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- Consolidate data storage and compute on fewer nodes, reducing hardware needs.
- Achieve continuous On- & Off-site Data Protection (OODP) with near-zero RPO.
- Automate VM/CT configuration file backups to streamline recovery.
- Benefit in large deployments, as well as cost-effective setups for SMBs.
Open-E JovianDSS with NFS for Proxmox VE:
Best Practices Guide
Focusing specifically on bare metal NFS-based data storage, this guide provides in-depth best practices for configuring NFS shares, optimizing performance with nconnect, and implementing Open-E JovianDSS On- Off-site Data Protection for robust data protection within your Proxmox VE environment.
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- Configuration of the integration
- VM installation
- Snapshots for On-Site and Off-site Data Protection and Data Backup
- Disaster Recovery in case of failure: restoring a single VM, a single file, and all VMs
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