Nodes
Control Planes
Three bare-metal Lenovo M710q mini PCs running Talos Linux as Kubernetes control plane nodes. Workloads are permitted to schedule on control planes (allowSchedulingOnControlPlanes: true).
| Hostname | IP | Boot Disk | Ceph OSD |
|---|---|---|---|
| talos-cp-01 | 10.10.99.101 | 256 GB NVMe (Samsung MZVLW256) | 256 GB SATA SSD |
| talos-cp-02 | 10.10.99.102 | 256 GB NVMe (Samsung MZVLW256) | 256 GB SATA SSD |
| talos-cp-03 | 10.10.99.103 | 256 GB NVMe (Samsung MZVLW256) | 256 GB SATA SSD |
- RAM: 16 GB each
- Network: Physical NIC (MAC prefix
6c:4b:90), bonded asbond0, VLAN 1099 (LAB) tagged asbond0.1099 - Secure Boot: Enabled
- Talos schematic extensions:
i915,intel-ucode,mei,nfsrahead,util-linux-tools
Workers
Three Talos Linux VMs on Proxmox host pantheon (HPE ML150 G9).
| Hostname | IP | VM ID | Disk | GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| talos-w-01 | 10.10.99.201 | 101 | /dev/sda (virtualized) | — |
| talos-w-02 | 10.10.99.202 | 102 | /dev/sda (virtualized) | — |
| talos-gpu-01 | 10.10.99.203 | 104 | /dev/sda (virtualized) | ASRock Arc A380 6 GB (passthrough) |
- RAM: 32 GB each
- vCPUs: 6 (sockets=1, cores=6, NUMA enabled)
- Network: QEMU NIC (MAC prefix
bc:24:11), bonded asbond0, VLAN 1099 LAB (bond0.1099) + VLAN 1152 IOT (bond0.1152) - Secure Boot: Enabled (UKI cmdline via
grubUseUKICmdline: true) - Talos schematic extensions:
i915,intel-ucode,mei,nfsrahead,qemu-guest-agent,util-linux-tools - GPU schematic adds:
intel_iommu=on,iommu=pt,i915.enable_guc=3,pcie_aspm=off
GPU Worker Notes
- Small BAR detected — HPE ML150 G9 does not support Resizable BAR (ReBAR). This is not fixable at the firmware level. VAAPI transcoding is unaffected.
- xpu-smi / Level Zero error
zeInit: 78000001— Level Zero compute API is unavailable inside VMs (expected). VAAPI/DRM still works correctly. model: Unknown,memory: "0"in ResourceSlice — cosmetic result of xpu-smi failure above; no functional impact.
Proxmox Host (pantheon)
The virtualization host for all three worker VMs.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Hostname | pantheon |
| IP | 10.10.99.104 |
| Hardware | HPE ML150 G9 |
| CPU | 2× Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 (12 c/24 t total) |
| RAM | 192 GB |
| OS | Proxmox VE (Debian Trixie) |
| Boot disk | T-FORCE 1 TB SSD |
SSH access: root@10.10.99.104
Worker VMs are managed via the Proxmox web UI or CLI (qm). The Arc A380 GPU is passed through to talos-gpu-01 (VM 104) via VFIO.
VM Management Quick Reference
# List VMs
qm list
# Start/stop a VM
qm start 104
qm stop 104
# Hard reset (use when talosctl reboot hangs)
qm reset 104
# Console access
qm terminal 101