It can't be DNS, can it???
Oh yes, it WAS DNS!
`pvesm status -storage local` took >120 seconds.... and it turned out a single node was pointing to a problematic resolver, and once the resolver was fixed, stats popped up !!!
just leaving it here...
I've been trying to use FAI https://fai-project.org/FAIme/ to create cloud-init images, but ran into troubles (can't recall was 1.5years ago) but if somebody could make that "simple" for server type installation, it could handle about all the...