Tag Archives: ProxMox

Proxmox Cluster

My proxmox cluster just got a serious upgrade, adding 3 more AsRock 4×4 4800u nodes.

And I did not yet remove the old CI323 nodes, thus the overall capacity in the cluster is currently:

16 cores at 1.6-2.08GHz
16 cores at 0.4-4.2GHz

320GB RAM

12GB SSD

20TB NAS / NFS / S3


AsRock 4×4 Box-4800u mini PC

Decided to try the new Asrock 4×4 Box 4800u mini PC, as a replacement in my ProxMox Cluster.

And WOW ! what a platform.

The Ryzen 7 4800u runs at max 4.2GHz, but I use it in powersave mode anyway. TDP is 15Watts only

I use it with 64GB of RAM and an internal 1GB M2.SSD WD SN550.

Thus my Proxmox got a serious power upgrade. Looking forward to replace my old CI323 nodes soon, currently I run on 5 nodes in Proxmox,
making the reaction time of my kubernetes nodes much much faster.

Zotac CI323 nano

Just bought 4 Zotac CI323 nano’s to set up a low energy proxmox cluster.

With only 12x12cm those machines are tiny, and they only require 7 watts.

Inside I do use 16GB RAM (officially 8GB only, but it works with low powere RAM) and with a 500GB SSD from Samsung.

Thus the Proxmox cluster has 16 cores at 1.6 to 2.08GHz and 64GB of RAM, with overall around 50Watts, when using the powersave governor in Linux.