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Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE

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Post by johntash » Sat, Dec 02, 2023, 12:28 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #108

johntash wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would this work for having proxmox modes across multiple datacenters? IIRC it was sensitive to latency I don't really use the HA features of proxmox that often, mostly just for migrating vms across hosts. But I had been thinking of re-installing some of my remote servers with proxmox and hooking them up to the same cluster so that I could potentially shut off all of the servers in my basement and run everything from…

I've not noticed anything latency-sensitivty, perhaps the Ceph feature? I'm not using that though. There's also the issue of quorum of it's only a 2-node cluster, though I've personally not had any issues with it, despite repeatedly restarting the different nodes. I see no reason why you couldn't do this to allow you to move your VMs from home to elsewhere and back again as you just mentioned.

ceph is latency sensitive, but that should only matter for the servers running ceph and not (as much) the clients using it.

I thought quorum feature of proxmox was also latency sensitive, but this is the only thing I found:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#pvecm_cluster_n...

Maybe this doesn't matter if not using HA? I'll read more about it and maybe test it out

Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE

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Post by calamari4065 » Sat, Dec 02, 2023, 2:47 AM UTC

favorited wrote: post #105

calamari4065 wrote: post #89

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It really depends on your perspective and what you want out of a homelab. If you want to tinker with servers as a hobby it's a huge plus. If you want things to Just Work, this is probably not for you

I've been a "Just Work" person for a long time, but over the last couple years I've shifted to DIYing more instead of buying turn-key products. I replaced my off-the-shelf NAS with a custom TrueNAS box, and swapped my router+firewall+switch+WiFi all-in-one with a low-energy device running pfSense and a dedicated WiFi AP. I have been pleasantly surprised to find that, after the initial research & setup, things still "…

I've had the same experience in reverse. I'm a tinkerer and I always have been. I bought a server expecting to tinker with it all the time. What fun!

But no, after the first couple hours of tinkering it Just Works.

This past week I settled in for a good solid weekend of getting a gitlab server stood up. I was looking forward to it! Imagine my disappointment when it was a single command that took half an hour to run.

Oh well, I guess it just means more time for my other hobbies.

Re: Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE

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Post by alias_neo » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 9:37 PM UTC

johntash wrote: post #111

alias_neo wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've not noticed anything latency-sensitivty, perhaps the Ceph feature? I'm not using that though. There's also the issue of quorum of it's only a 2-node cluster, though I've personally not had any issues with it, despite repeatedly restarting the different nodes. I see no reason why you couldn't do this to allow you to move your VMs from home to elsewhere and back again as you just mentioned.

ceph is latency sensitive, but that should only matter for the servers running ceph and not (as much) the clients using it. I thought quorum feature of proxmox was also latency sensitive, but this is the only thing I found: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#pvecm_cluster_n... Maybe this doesn't matter if not using HA? I'll read more about it and maybe test it out

Yeah I've not had any issues. I have nodes they are offline for months when not in use, it doesn't seem to have any effect of you're not using HA.

Just my experience though, YMMV.