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Domino on Proxmox deployment models

With the current cost increases for VMware licenses and also hardware some of my customers start to look very seriously for alternate solutions.
One deployment method would be Proxmox with local ZFS disks.

ZFS is a very interesting file-system and volume manager combined. It offers a lot of flexibility and choices.
Compression, de-duplication, optimized record size, snapshots, encryption and more benefits.

I am a big fan for a while and I did blog about Domino on Proxmox before.
Last weekend I looked into different deployment methods for Domino on Proxmox for a customer.

A VM with Linux + Docker + Domino might be additional overhead which could be optimized.

LXC containers use native ZFS volumes and are very efficient:

• Lightweight Linux instance with shared kernel like Docker
• Leverage ZFS host subvolumes for a true end to end storage management and less overhead
• Standardized OS images

What is missing is the automated installation we know from Docker.
I am looking into that right now and if you are interested in Domino on Proxmox, I want to hear from you.

At Engage I will show case Domino on Proxmox. I will bring a Proxmox server running on my notebook with an automated Domino installation including management scripts with me.
I would like to hear from you what type of deployments you are looking into.

We are working on multiple deployment options optimized for Proxmox in combination with Domino clustering to optimize the deployment footprint.
This includes DAOS storage deduplication cross servers and backup.

-- Daniel

My Notebook deployment on VMware workstation with Proxmox 4 CPU cores + 8 RAM as a test/demo installation for on the road.
For LXCs it does not even need the hardware support.

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