I am continuing my experiments around what types of workloads and how many we can run on mini PCs in the home lab.
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I am continuing my experiments around what types of workloads and how many we can run on mini PCs in the home lab.
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What’s the point of,this is like stupid video Linus tech tips would do
I'm surprised to learn about the 1024 limitation of the native Linux bridge. We wouldn't know unless you did something crazy like this experiment, so many thanks for that.
This is fascinating. My takeaway here is no, I don't need another piece of hardware, I'm good to throw another VM, or LXC, or two or three on my existing hardware! Cool stuff, thanks Brandon!
interesting… maybe…. awesome… no. The containers are essentially idle so all that's happening is the host OS is just looping through a list waiting for something to do. And the same can be said for the VM test. Cute, but that's it.
It's some kind of techp0rn)) Thanks for the enjoyment!
I wouldn’t call running hundreds of VMs or thousands of LXCs a ”realistic workload” when they are all from the exact same base image. You do know that the reuseable memory you get when running even slightly different OS and software is not even comparable? Maybe do another test with all different operating system versions and different applications for comparison?
I would for sure contact Proxmox about this. I wonder if you hit pid_max or file-max in the kernel limit.
$10k/yr for only 100 machines!? I've got a few hundred virtual machines across a 5 node proxmox cluster… that gets expensive really quick – given how ridiculously expensive $10k is, particularly when there are free open source options for network documentation as well.
I wonder if this has something to do with TCP connections; maybe there are 2048 connections?
Thanks.
My gut feeling is that you hit the max number of ports on the interface. Leading me to think you could have added a second or third interface and split up the node across them. Avoiding the nested PVE method you used. I am guessing that you could even add "virtual" interfaces on a single NIC (assuming the system has only one) and create a bridge on it. It would be interesting to see if you can get that to work.
Somebody stops this man before he creates a containers singularity
2,200 LXC containers on a Mini PC is insane!!
Virtualisation inception… how many ProxMox can run in ProxMox can run in Proxmox … … … etc… and will they cluster… hahah 🙂
I wonder if the limit can be worked around by creating an additional bridge if the mini pc have an extra nic.
I really enjoy your videos because you are a systems guy that produces high quality content about true homelabbing (from an IT Pro's perspective)….in that i mean a homelab that is designed around upskilling and not about setting up the rr's to get things for free. Keep up the good work!