Hardware proposal for PVE

[Rytecbe]

Hello

I'm thinking of buying me a Lenovo thinkcentre small form factor machine with i5 cpu, 64gb ram and 2 NVMe SSD disks to put in ZFS raid for installing Proxmox PVE.
Now I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre M725s with 64gb AMD Ryzen 3 pro cpu and 1TB SSD disk and then I put these two in a cluster.
My other PVE node is i5 HP Prodesk with 16gb but has SATA HDD disks and these are not so good for Proxmox

 

[MagicFab]

Two nodes does not equal a cluster, unless using a Q-device - event then it's not the ideal scenario. More about this:

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

For SSDs keep in mind if you're using domestic grade SSDs, they will fail often, and quickly.

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[Johannes S]

You could use the Elitedesk as backup server and qdevice.

Please note that after adding the qdevice it can be accessed from thr cluster via ssh which might not be what you wanted for your backups. This can be mitigated with a setup like the one described by @aaron here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/2-node-ha-cluster.102781/#post-442601