Ceph on DevOps & Homelab Adventureshttp://lab.8devops.com/tags/ceph/Recent content in Ceph on DevOps & Homelab AdventuresHugo -- 0.160.1en-usWed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Retiring pve005: Decommissioning a Proxmox Node the Hard Wayhttp://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-04-08-retiring-pve005/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-04-08-retiring-pve005/Walking through the full decommission of a Proxmox node from a legacy cluster: draining Ceph, removing monitors, clearing corosync, and cleaning up the loose ends.Rebuilding My Homelab: From 9 Nodes to 3 with Proxmox 9 and Cephhttp://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-03-07-proxmox-cluster-rebuild/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-03-07-proxmox-cluster-rebuild/How I consolidated a sprawling 9-node Proxmox 8 cluster into a lean 3-node Proxmox 9 cluster with Ceph storage, GPU passthrough, and fully automated Ansible management.Setting Up Tiered Ceph Storage with CephFS and RBD on Proxmox 9http://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-03-07-ceph-tiered-storage-proxmox/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://lab.8devops.com/posts/2026-03-07-ceph-tiered-storage-proxmox/How I configured Ceph with CRUSH rules to separate SSD and HDD tiers, then set up both CephFS and RBD pools for different workloads on a 3-node Proxmox 9 cluster.