From standalone node to cluster

yaboc

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Hi

I have a standalone node connected to FreeNAS via ISCSI running a couple KVMs.

I'd like to create a cluster and add another node to the mix. Can the KVMs be up and running while performing the cluter setup?

Thanks

yaboc
 
yes the node just becomes the first node in the cluster. then you can join others (is a multimaster cluster).
all shareable resources are shared (there is proxmox cluster filesystem that replicates /etc/pve on every cluster node, and that has conf files, dbs, etc.)

this means that if you have a "local" storage, that will be on other nodes too, but it will be "local", meaning a local folder, of course to each node.
instead, a nfs or iscsi share or else will be (if configured properly, see wiki) really shared betwee all cluster nodes.

Marco
 
Yes - good advice!


yes the node just becomes the first node in the cluster. then you can join others (is a multimaster cluster).
all shareable resources are shared (there is proxmox cluster filesystem that replicates /etc/pve on every cluster node, and that has conf files, dbs, etc.)

this means that if you have a "local" storage, that will be on other nodes too, but it will be "local", meaning a local folder, of course to each node.
instead, a nfs or iscsi share or else will be (if configured properly, see wiki) really shared betwee all cluster nodes.

Marco
 
thanks guys. i successfully created cluster with two nodes connected to iSCSI storage.
 

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