Proxmox Cluster as my Homelab

Proxmox Cluster as my Homelab

A lot have happened in the last year.

The first rule I've discovered is when you think you've got everything up and running as you want it, you're wrong! There is always room for improvements and a path to learning new things.

As I've been getting myself familiarized with Proxmox and my storage needs increased, I've decided to ditch my Asrock X300 -and turn it into a HTPC with Debian 12- and buy and new mini PC into its place. The R1 Pro NAS

T-BAO R1 : Intel N100, NAS λειτουργία και δύο 2.5G Ethernet θύρες σε ένα  Mini PC/Server με τιμές απο 230€! - Angroid.gr
n100 CPU, 16GBs RAM with 2 slots for HDDs

I also bought 2 14TB HDDs which I mirrored in a ZFS pool inside Proxmox.

Since the minimum requirements for a Proxmox cluster are 3 nodes as it needs to maintain quorum at all times I've also bought a Raspberry Pi4 to act as  Corosync Quorum Device (QDevice). Which is a lot of words to say, it gets to vote on the cluster.

So, if a node goes down for whatever reason, it doesn't take the other node also with it. I followed this guide to set it up.

pvecm status command

To be continued