Cluster of 2 nodes + Qdevice for homelab

kernull

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In short, I really just want to be able to have 2 clusters, one low and one high power, with one webUI and the ability to manually migrate from one pve host to another.

I want the low power pve host always on, while the other host can only be up when I need it.

Reading other folks posts, using an external QDevice is the way to do this, but I can't help it being the homelab hack I am... what if I just virtualize the QDevice?

As I (loosely) understand it, this might allow for the behavior I want, but would prevent the low power host from booting up properly alone (running vms at boot etc) when it does eventually power cycle...

so when a single host boots and doesnt see quorum, will:
`pve expected 1 && qm start <vmID> && pve expected 2`
potentially do the trick?

if not, then another external little linux box will have to be the solution, I just want to know if I can get around it with a very non-production homelab applications...

thanks for reading