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This is anecdotal but I have never seen one cluster that big. You might
want to inquire about professional support which would give you a better
perspective for that kind of scale.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:30 AM Eneko Lacunza via pve-user <
pve-user@lists.proxmox.com> wrote:

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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eneko Lacunza <elacunza@binovo.es>
> To: "pve-user@pve.proxmox.com" <pve-user@pve.proxmox.com>
> Cc:
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> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:30:31 +0200
> Subject: BIG cluster questions
> Hi all,
>
> We're currently helping a customer to configure a virtualization cluster
> with 88 servers for VDI.
>
> Right know we're testing the feasibility of building just one Proxmox
> cluster of 88 nodes. A 4-node cluster has been configured too for
> comparing both (same server and networking/racks).
>
> Nodes have 2 NICs 2x25Gbps each. Currently there are two LACP bonds
> configured (one for each NIC); one for storage (NFS v4.2) and the other
> for the rest (VMs, cluster).
>
> Cluster has two rings, one on each bond.
>
> - With clusters at rest (no significant number of VMs running), we see
> quite a different corosync/knet latency average on our 88 node cluster
> (~300-400) and our 4-node cluster (<100).
>
>
> For 88-node cluster:
>
> - Creating some VMs (let's say 16), one each 30s, works well.
> - Destroying some VMs (let's say 16), one each 30s, outputs error
> messages (storage cfs lock related) and fails removing some of the VMs.
>
> - Rebooting 32 nodes, one each 30 seconds (boot for a node is about
> 120s) so that no quorum is lost, creates a cluster traffic "flood". Some
> of the rebooted nodes don't rejoin the cluster, and WUI shows all nodes
> in cluster quorum with a grey ?, instead of green OK. In this situation
> corosying latency in some nodes can skyrocket to 10s or 100s times the
> values before the reboots. Access to pmxcfs is very slow and we have
> been able to fix the issue only rebooting all nodes.
>
> - We have tried changing the transport of knet in a ring from UDP to
> SCTP as reported here:
>
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-6-2-corosync-3-rare-and-spontaneous-disruptive-udp-5405-storm-flood.75871/page-2
> that gives better latencies for corosync, but the reboot issue continues.
>
> We don't know whether both issues are related or not.
>
> Could LACP bonds be the issue?
>
> https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#sysadmin_network_configuration
> "
> If your switch support the LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) protocol then we
> recommend using the corresponding bonding mode (802.3ad). Otherwise you
> should generally use the active-backup mode.
> If you intend to run your cluster network on the bonding interfaces,
> then you have to use active-passive mode on the bonding interfaces,
> other modes are unsupported.
> "
> As per second line, we understand that running cluster networking over a
> LACP bond is not supported (just to confirm our interpretation)? We're
> in the process of reconfiguring nodes/switches to test without a bond,
> to see if that gives us a stable cluster (will report on this). Do you
> think this could be the issue?
>
>
> Now for more general questions; do you think a 88-node Proxmox VE
> cluster is feasible?
>
> Those 88 nodes will host about 14.000 VMs. Will HA manager be able to
> manage them, or are they too many? (HA for those VMs doesn't seem to be
> a requirement right know).
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Eneko
>
>
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