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.
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